Asfuriyyeh
A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East
Published on 17. November 2020
312 pages
978-0-262-36118-7 (ISBN)
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The development of psychiatry in the Middle East, viewed through the history of one of the first modern mental hospitals in the region.
ʿAsfuriyyeh (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 ʿAsfuriyyeh 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.
ʿAsfuriyyeh (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 ʿAsfuriyyeh 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.
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Joelle M. Abi-Rached, M.D., 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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List of Figures
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration, Translation, Terminology, and Monetary Values
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Oriental Madness and Civilization
Chapter 2. The Struggle for Influence and the Birth of Psychiatry
Chapter . The Rise of ʿA?furiyyeh and the Decline of Missions
Chapter 4. Patriarchal Power and The Gospel of the Modern Care of Insanity
Chapter 5. The Downfall of ʿA?furiyyeh and the Breakdown of the State
Chapter 6. The Politics of Health, Charity, and Sectarianism
Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration, Translation, Terminology, and Monetary Values
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Oriental Madness and Civilization
Chapter 2. The Struggle for Influence and the Birth of Psychiatry
Chapter . The Rise of ʿA?furiyyeh and the Decline of Missions
Chapter 4. Patriarchal Power and The Gospel of the Modern Care of Insanity
Chapter 5. The Downfall of ʿA?furiyyeh and the Breakdown of the State
Chapter 6. The Politics of Health, Charity, and Sectarianism
Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
