Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam
26 Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Beyond the Asylum

Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam

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Claire E. Edington
Claire E. Edington
2019 • 312 pages

"This book looks beyond the asylum to consider how psychiatry in French colonial Vietnam was produced in everyday exchanges between lay people and experts"--

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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University is a 26-book series with 26 released primary works first released in 1985 with contributions by Laurel Kendall, Dae-Sook Suh, and Roderick MacFarquhar.

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