Beyond the asylum : mental illness in French colonial Vietnam /
Edington, Claire, 1984-
Beyond the asylum : mental illness in French colonial Vietnam / Mental illness in French colonial Vietnam Claire E. Edington. - Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages). - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University .
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"--
9781501733956 9781501733949
2018047923
Mental illness--Social aspects--History.--Vietnam
Mentally ill--Care--History.--Vietnam
Mentally ill--Social conditions.--Vietnam
Psychiatry--History.--Vietnam
Psychiatric hospitals--History.--Vietnam
Electronic Books.
RC451 / .B496 2019
Beyond the asylum : mental illness in French colonial Vietnam / Mental illness in French colonial Vietnam Claire E. Edington. - Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages). - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University .
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"--
9781501733956 9781501733949
2018047923
Mental illness--Social aspects--History.--Vietnam
Mentally ill--Care--History.--Vietnam
Mentally ill--Social conditions.--Vietnam
Psychiatry--History.--Vietnam
Psychiatric hospitals--History.--Vietnam
Electronic Books.
RC451 / .B496 2019