Beyond the Asylum : : Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam / / Claire E. Edington.
Claire Edington's fascinating look at psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam challenges our notion of the colonial asylum as a closed setting, run by experts with unchallenged authority, from which patients rarely left. She shows instead a society in which Vietnamese communities and famili...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 22 b&w halftones, 2 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Writing the Social History of Psychiatry in French Colonial Vietnam
- 1. A Background to Confinement: The Legal Category of the "Insane" Person in French Indochina
- 2. Patients, Staff, and the Everyday Challenges of Asylum Administration
- 3. Labor as Therapy: Agricultural Colonies, Study Trips, and the Psychiatric Reeducation of the Insane
- 4. Going In and Getting Out of the Colonial Asylum: Families and the Politics of Caregiving
- 5. Mental illness and Treatment Advice in the Vietnamese Popular Press
- 6. Psychiatric Expertise and Indochina's Crime Problem
- Conclusion: Continuities and Change in Postcolonial Vietnam
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index