Beyond the asylum : mental illness in French colonial Vietnam / Claire E. Edington.
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TextSeries: Publication details: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages)Content type: - text
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- Mental illness in French colonial Vietnam
- RC451 .B496 2019
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Includes bibliographies 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"--
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