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

by Joelle M Abi-Rached and Joelle M. Abi-Rached

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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.

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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0262044749

ISBN13:9780262044745

Release Date:November 2020

Publisher:MIT Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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History Medical Medical Books Social Science Social Sciences

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