Beyond the asylum : mental illness in French colonial Vietnam / Claire E. Edington.
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TextSeries: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityPublisher: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781501733956
- 1501733958
- 9781501733949
- 150173394X
- 1501733931
- 9781501733932
- Mental illness in French colonial Vietnam
- Mental illness -- Social aspects -- Vietnam -- History
- Mentally ill -- Care -- Vietnam -- History
- Mentally ill -- Vietnam -- Social conditions
- Psychiatry -- Vietnam -- History
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Vietnam -- History
- Psychiatry -- history
- Mentally Ill Persons -- history
- Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history
- Vietnam
- Maladies mentales -- Aspect social -- Viêt-nam -- Histoire
- Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale -- Soins -- Viêt-nam -- Histoire
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare
- HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia
- Mental illness -- Social aspects
- Mentally ill -- Care
- Mentally ill -- Social conditions
- Psychiatric hospitals
- Psychiatry
- Vietnam
- 362.2/109597 23
- RC451.V5 E35 2019
- WM 11 JV6
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"This book looks beyond the asylum to consider how psychiatry in French colonial Vietnam was produced in everyday exchanges between lay people and experts"-- Provided by publisher.
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