1. A Background to Confinement: The Legal Category of the “Insane” Person in French Indochina

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Writing the Social History of Psychiatry in French Colonial Vietnam 1
6. 1. A Background to Confinement: The Legal Category of the “Insane” Person in French Indochina 20
7. 2. Patients, Staff, and the Everyday Challenges of Asylum Administration 55
8. 3. Labor as Therapy: Agricultural Colonies, Study Trips, and the Psychiatric Reeducation of the Insane 92
9. 4. Going In and Getting Out of the Colonial Asylum: Families and the Politics of Caregiving 121
10. 5. Mental illness and Treatment Advice in the Vietnamese Popular Press 154
11. 6. Psychiatric Expertise and Indochina’s Crime Problem 181
12. Conclusion: Continuities and Change in Postcolonial Vietnam 211
13. Notes 221
14. Bibliography 267
15. Index 283