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

Madness in the Family traces the history of how family became crucial in the care of those considered mad, as well as in creating gendered explanations of madness, in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Japan. As women and families navigated a shifting therapeutic landscape of madness, they produced their...

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Main Author: Kim, H. Yumi (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, [2022]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Madness in the Family traces the history of how family became crucial in the care of those considered mad, as well as in creating gendered explanations of madness, in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Japan. As women and families navigated a shifting therapeutic landscape of madness, they produced their own understandings and approaches to madness that, like elsewhere in the world, would take precedence over the claims of psychiatry, the law, and the state in everyday life.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 231 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0197507379
9780197507377
9780197507360
0197507360