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024 7 _a10.7591/9781501733949
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501733949
035 _a(DE-B1597)527456
035 _a(OCoLC)1057242267
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082 0 4 _a362.2/109597
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aEdington, Claire E.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBeyond the Asylum :
_bMental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam /
_cClaire E. Edington.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource (312 p.) :
_b22 b&w halftones, 2 maps
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: Writing the Social History of Psychiatry in French Colonial Vietnam --
_t1. A Background to Confinement: The Legal Category of the “Insane” Person in French Indochina --
_t2. Patients, Staff, and the Everyday Challenges of Asylum Administration --
_t3. Labor as Therapy: Agricultural Colonies, Study Trips, and the Psychiatric Reeducation of the Insane --
_t4. Going In and Getting Out of the Colonial Asylum: Families and the Politics of Caregiving --
_t5. Mental illness and Treatment Advice in the Vietnamese Popular Press --
_t6. Psychiatric Expertise and Indochina’s Crime Problem --
_tConclusion: Continuities and Change in Postcolonial Vietnam --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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_2star
520 _aThis 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aMental illness
_xSocial aspects
_zVietnam
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMentally ill
_xCare
_zVietnam
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMentally ill
_zVietnam
_xSocial conditions.
650 0 _aPsychiatric hospitals
_zVietnam
_xHistory.
650 0 _aPsychiatry
_zVietnam
_xHistory.
650 4 _aAsian Studies.
650 4 _aHistory.
650 4 _aVietnam.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia.
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653 _aAnti-colonialism.
653 _aColonial legacy.
653 _aSoutheast Asia.
653 _aSoutheast Asian civilization.
653 _aSoutheast Asian culture.
653 _aSoutheast Asian studies.
653 _aVietnamese colonial history.
653 _aVietnamese history.
653 _aVietnamese society.
653 _aVietnamese studies.
653 _aVietnamese.
653 _acolonial asylum.
653 _acolonial authorities.
653 _acolonial history.
653 _acolonial rule.
653 _acolonial state.
653 _afrench Vietnamese colonial history.
653 _afrench colonial history.
653 _ahistory of imperialism.
653 _ahistory of medicine.
653 _ahistory of psychiatric medicine.
653 _ahistory of psychiatry medicine.
653 _amental illness vietnam.
653 _amodern psychiatry.
653 _apost-colonial psychiatry.
653 _apostcolonial scholarship.
653 _apostcolonial studies.
653 _apsychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam.
653 _asocial history of European colonialism.
653 _avietnam history.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501733949
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501733949
856 4 2 _3Cover
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