TY - BOOK AU - Edington,Claire TI - Beyond the asylum: mental illness in French colonial Vietnam T2 - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University SN - 9781501733956 AV - RC451 .B496 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - Ithaca [New York] PB - Cornell University Press KW - Mental illness KW - Social aspects KW - Vietnam KW - History KW - Mentally ill KW - Care KW - Social conditions KW - Psychiatry KW - Psychiatric hospitals KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - "This book looks beyond the asylum to consider how psychiatry in French colonial Vietnam was produced in everyday exchanges between lay people and experts"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2084001&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -