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Disturbing spirits : mental illness, trauma, and treatment in modern Syria and Lebanon /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tsacoyianis, Beverly A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Mental illness > Syria > History.
Mental illness > Lebanon > History.
Mental illness > Treatment > Syria.
Mental illness > Treatment > Lebanon.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • A Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • One Vernacular Healing in Greater Syria
  • Two The Origins of Greater Syrian Medical Institutions
  • Three Medical Missionaries and the Lebanon Mental Hospital, 1899-1983
  • Four Secular Healing and Ibn Sina Mental Hospital, 1922-2018
  • Five Literature, Civil War, and (Ef)facing Syrianand Lebanese History
  • Conclusion: On Pain, Surviving, Coping,and Healing
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.