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Madness in the family : women, care, and illness in Japan /

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To fend off American and European imperialism in the nineteenth century, Japan strove to strengthen itself by drawing on the most updated ideas and practices from around the world. By the 1880s, this included the introduction of Western-derived psychiatry and its ideas about mental illness. The firs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kim, H. Yumi (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2022].
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Subjects:
Mental illness > Japan > History.
Mental illness > Treatment > Japan > History.
Mentally ill > Care > Japan.
Mentally ill > Family relationships > Japan.
Families of the mentally ill > Japan.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Mentally ill women.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Fox Spirits in Villages
  • 2. Cages in Rural Homes
  • 3. Hysteria in the Marketplace
  • 4. Periodic Crimes in the Courtroom
  • Epilogue: Postwar Cultures of Gendered Care and Kinship.