Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan

Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan
ISBN-10
0197507352
ISBN-13
9780197507353
Category
History
Pages
249
Language
English
Published
2022-09-16
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
H. Yumi Kim

Description

Madness in the Family traces the history of how family became crucial in the care of those considered mad, as well as in creating gendered explanations of madness, in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Japan. As women and families navigated a shifting therapeutic landscape of madness, they produced their own understandings and approaches to madness that, like elsewhere in the world, would take precedence over the claims of psychiatry, the law, and the state in everyday life.

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