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Author Edington, Claire E., 1984- author.

Title Beyond the asylum : mental illness in French colonial Vietnam / Claire E. Edington.

Publication Info. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "This book looks beyond the asylum to consider how psychiatry in French colonial Vietnam was produced in everyday exchanges between lay people and experts"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Mental illness -- Social aspects -- Vietnam -- History.
Mental illness -- Social aspects.
Vietnam.
History.
Mentally ill -- Care -- Vietnam -- History.
Mentally ill -- Care.
Mentally ill -- Vietnam -- Social conditions.
Mentally ill.
Social conditions.
Psychiatry -- Vietnam -- History.
Psychiatry.
Psychiatric hospitals -- Vietnam -- History.
Psychiatric hospitals.
Vietnam.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Mental illness in French colonial Vietnam
Other Form: Print version: Edington, Claire, 1984- Beyond the asylum. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501733932 (DLC) 2018041940
ISBN 9781501733956 (electronic publication/mobi)
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