Beyond the asylum: Colonial psychiatry in French Indochina, 1880-1940

This dissertation looks beyond the asylum to consider the development of psychiatry in French Indochina as the product of everyday exchanges between lay people and experts. Drawing on archival research conducted over two years in Vietnam and France - including hundreds of patient case files - I trac...

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Main Author: Edington, Claire Ellen
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7916/D8NS0T8C