Asfuriyyeh Asfuriyyeh
Culture and Psychiatry

Asfuriyyeh

A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East

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Publisher Description

The development of psychiatry in the Middle East, viewed through the history of one of the first modern mental hospitals in the region.

ʿAṣfūriyyeh (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 ʿAṣfūriyyeh as a lens through which to examine the development of modern psychiatric theory and practice in the region as well as the sociopolitical history of modern Lebanon.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2020
November 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
312
Pages
PUBLISHER
MIT Press
SELLER
Penguin Random House Canada
SIZE
70.2
MB

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