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Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam

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Author(s): Claire E. Edington
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Year: 2019

Language: English
Pages: 288
City: Ithaca, NY

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Writing the Social History of Psychiatry in French Colonial Vietnam 1
1. A Background to Confinement: The Legal Category of the “Insane” Person in French Indochina 20
2. Patients, Staff, and the Everyday Challenges of Asylum Administration 55
3. Labor as Therapy: Agricultural Colonies, Study Trips, and the Psychiatric Reeducation of the Insane 92
4. Going In and Getting Out of the Colonial Asylum: Families and the Politics of Caregiving 121
5. Mental illness and Treatment Advice in the Vietnamese Popular Press 154
6. Psychiatric Expertise and Indochina’s Crime Problem 181
Conclusion: Continuities and Change in Postcolonial Vietnam 211
Notes 221
Bibliography 267
Index 283