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 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 Vietnam. Electronic books.
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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.