TY - BOOK AU - Edington,Claire E. TI - Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam T2 - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University SN - 9781501733949 U1 - 362.2/109597 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - Mental illness KW - Social aspects KW - Vietnam KW - History KW - Mentally ill KW - Care KW - Social conditions KW - Psychiatric hospitals KW - Psychiatry KW - Asian Studies KW - HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia KW - bisacsh KW - Anti-colonialism KW - Colonial legacy KW - Southeast Asia KW - Southeast Asian civilization KW - Southeast Asian culture KW - Southeast Asian studies KW - Vietnamese colonial history KW - Vietnamese history KW - Vietnamese society KW - Vietnamese studies KW - Vietnamese KW - colonial asylum KW - colonial authorities KW - colonial history KW - colonial rule KW - colonial state KW - french Vietnamese colonial history KW - french colonial history KW - history of imperialism KW - history of medicine KW - history of psychiatric medicine KW - history of psychiatry medicine KW - mental illness vietnam KW - modern psychiatry KW - post-colonial psychiatry KW - postcolonial scholarship KW - postcolonial studies KW - psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam KW - social history of European colonialism KW - vietnam history N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Writing the Social History of Psychiatry in French Colonial Vietnam --; 1. A Background to Confinement: The Legal Category of the “Insane” Person in French Indochina --; 2. Patients, Staff, and the Everyday Challenges of Asylum Administration --; 3. Labor as Therapy: Agricultural Colonies, Study Trips, and the Psychiatric Reeducation of the Insane --; 4. Going In and Getting Out of the Colonial Asylum: Families and the Politics of Caregiving --; 5. Mental illness and Treatment Advice in the Vietnamese Popular Press --; 6. Psychiatric Expertise and Indochina’s Crime Problem --; Conclusion: Continuities and Change in Postcolonial Vietnam --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - This book is a must-read for any specialist in the history of colonial and post-colonial psychiatry, as well as a fantastic case study for those interested in the social history of European colonialism more generally.― ChoiceClaire Edington's fascinating look at psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam challenges our notion of the colonial asylum as a closed setting, run by experts with unchallenged authority, from which patients rarely left. She shows instead a society in which Vietnamese communities and families actively participated in psychiatric decision-making in ways that strengthened the power of the colonial state, even as they also forced French experts to engage with local understandings of, and practices around, insanity. Beyond the Asylum reveals how psychiatrists, colonial authorities, and the Vietnamese public debated both what it meant to be abnormal, as well as normal enough to return to social life, throughout the early twentieth century.Straddling the fields of colonial history, Southeast Asian studies and the history of medicine, Beyond the Asylum shifts our perspective from the institution itself to its relationship with the world beyond its walls. This world included not only psychiatrists and their patients, but also prosecutors and parents, neighbors and spirit mediums, as well as the police and local press. How each group interacted with the mentally ill, with each other, and sometimes in opposition to each other, helped decide the fate of those both in and outside the colonial asylum UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501733949 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501733949 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501733949/original ER -