Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam by Edington, Claire E.
Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam by Edington, Claire E.

Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam

Claire Edington's fascinating look at psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam challenges our notion of the colonial...
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Author: Claire E. Edington
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Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam by Edington, Claire E.

Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam

CHF 109.01
Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam by Edington, Claire E.

Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam

CHF 109.01
Author: Claire E. Edington
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Claire 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.



Author: Claire E. Edington
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 04/15/2019
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781501733932
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2019

About the Author

Claire Edington is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Beyond the Asylum has received the Weatherhead East Asian Institute's prestigious First Book Prize.


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