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ʻAṣfūriyyeh : a history of madness, modernity, and war in the Middle East / Joelle M. Abi-Rached.

By: Abi-Rached, Joelle M, 1979- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture and psychiatryPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2020. Description: xxvii, 309 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmISBN: 9780262044745Subject(s): Psychiatric hospitals -- Lebanon -- History | Mental illness -- Treatment -- Lebanon -- History | Mental illness -- Lebanon -- History | Psychiatry -- Lebanon -- History | Mental illness -- Treatment -- Middle East -- History | Mental illness -- Middle East -- History | Psychiatry -- Middle East -- HistoryLOC classification: RC451.L42 | A25 2020
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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)"-- Provided by publisher.
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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)"-- Provided by publisher.

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