Asfuriyyeh
A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East
$104.14
- Hardcover
312 pages
- Release Date
19 January 2021
Summary
The development of psychiatry in the Middle East, viewed through the history of one of the first modern mental hospitals in the region.
Asfūriyyeh (formally, the Lebanon Hospital for the Insane) was founded by a Swiss Quaker missionary in 1896, one of the first modern psychiatric hospitals in the Middle East. It closed its doors in 1982, a victim of Lebanon’s brutal fifteen-year civil war. In this book, Joelle Abi-Rached uses the rise and fall of Asfūriyyeh as a lens through which to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262044745 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262044749 |
| Author: | Joelle M. Abi-Rached |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 19 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 612g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Culture and Psychiatry |
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Joelle M. Abi-Rached
Joelle M. Abi-Rached, MD, PhD, is a Fellow at Columbia University’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities and an invited researcher at the École normale supérieure and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. She is the coauthor of Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind.
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