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Beyond the asylum : mental illness in French colonial Vietnam /

"This book looks beyond the asylum to consider how psychiatry in French colonial Vietnam was produced in everyday exchanges between lay people and experts"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Edington, Claire E., 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : getting out of the asylum : writing the social history of psychiatry in French colonial Vietnam
  • The legal category of the " insane" person in French Indochina : a background to confinement
  • Patients, staff and the everyday challenges of asylum administration
  • Labor as therapy : agricultural colonies and the re-education of the insane
  • Going in and getting out of the colonial asylum : families and the politics of caregiving
  • Mental illness and treatment advice in the Vietnamese popular press
  • Psychiatric expertise and Indochina's crime problem.