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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kim, H. Yumi (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, [2022]
Subjects:	Mental illness > Japan > History. Mental illness > Treatment > Japan > History. Mentally ill > Family relationships > Japan. Families of the mentally ill > Japan. Mental illness > Treatment. Mentally ill women. Mental Disorders > history Mental Disorders > therapy Persons with Psychiatric Disorders Patient Care > history Japan Maladies mentales > Japon > Histoire. Maladies mentales > Traitement > Japon > Histoire. Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Relations familiales > Japon. Familles des personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Japon. Maladies mentales > Traitement. Femmes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale. people with psychiatric illnesses. Modern. Southeast Asia. Asia. History. MEDICAL. Families of the mentally ill Mental illness Mental illness > Treatment Mentally ill > Family relationships Clinical & internal medicine. Health and Wellbeing. Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

Series
Madness in the Family
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index