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Beyond the asylum : mental illness in French colonial Vietnam /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edington, Claire E., 1984- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Subjects:
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.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.