The invention of madness : state, society, and the insane in modern China /
Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the proper...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2018
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| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University |
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Table of Contents:
- Contracting the "mad illness"
- The birth of the Chinese asylum, 1901-1918
- The institutionalization of madness, 1910s-1920s
- The psychiatric entrepreneur, 1920s-1930s
- From madness to mental illness, 1928-1935
- Mental hygiene and political control, 1928-1937
- Between the mad and the mentally ill