Emily Baum

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The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern ChinaHardcover, 5 November 2018

The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China
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Part of Series
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Print Length
304 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Date Published
5 Nov 2018
ISBN-10
022658061X
ISBN-13
9780226580616

Description

Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the proper treatment for the mentally ill. In The Invention of Madness, Emily Baum traces a genealogy of insanity from the turn of the century to the onset of war with Japan in 1937, revealing the complex and convoluted ways in which "madness" was transformed in the Chinese imagination into "mental illness."

Focusing on typically marginalized historical actors, including municipal functionaries and the urban poor, The Invention of Madness shifts our attention from the elite desire for modern medical care to the ways in which psychiatric discourses were implemented and redeployed in the midst of everyday life. New meanings and practices of madness, Baum argues, were not just imposed on the Beijing public but continuously invented by a range of people in ways that reflected their own needs and interests. Exhaustively researched and theoretically informed, The Invention of Madness is an innovative contribution to medical history, urban studies, and the social history of twentieth-century China.

Product Details

Author:
Emily Baum
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
5 November 2018
Dimensions:
23.11 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
022658061X
ISBN-13:
9780226580616
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Weight:
498.95 gm

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