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Abi-Rached, Joelle M., 1979-

ʻAṣfūriyyeh : a history of madness, modernity, and war in the Middle East / Joelle M. Abi-Rached. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2020. - xxvii, 309 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm - Culture and psychiatry .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Oriental Madness and Civilization -- The Struggle for Influence and the Birth of Psychiatry -- The Rise of ʻAṣfūriyyeh and the Decline of Missions -- Patriarchal Power and The Gospel of the Modern Care of Insanity -- The Downfall of ʻAṣfūriyyeh and the Breakdown of the State -- The Politics of Health, Charity, and Sectarianism.

"How ʻAṣfūriyyeh, one of the first modern psychiatric hospitals in the the Middle East, influenced the complex relationships between pathology and modernity in the region (and beyond)"--

ISBN: 9780262044745

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Psychiatric hospitals--History.--Lebanon
Mental illness--Treatment--History.--Lebanon
Mental illness--History.--Lebanon
Psychiatry--History.--Lebanon
Mental illness--Treatment--History.--Middle East
Mental illness--History.--Middle East
Psychiatry--History.--Middle East

LC Class. No.: RC451.L42 / A25 2020