Introduction : getting out of the asylum : writing the social history of psychiatry in French colonial Vietnam -- The legal category of the " insane" person in French Indochina : a background to confinement -- Patients, staff and the everyday challenges of asylum administration -- Labor as therapy : agricultural colonies and the re-education of the insane -- Going in and getting out of the colonial asylum : families and the politics of caregiving -- Mental illness and treatment advice in the Vietnamese popular press -- Psychiatric expertise and Indochina's crime problem
Summary
"This book looks beyond the asylum to consider how psychiatry in French colonial Vietnam was produced in everyday exchanges between lay people and experts"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 15, 2019)
