Oriental Madness and Civilization -- The Struggle for Influence and the Birth of Psychiatry -- The Rise of AsĐfuriyyeh and the Decline of Missions -- Patriarchal Power and The Gospel of the Modern Care of Insanity -- The Downfall of AsĐfuriyyeh and the Breakdown of the State -- The Politics of Health, Charity, and Sectarianism.
Summary:
"How AsĐfuriyyeh, one of the first modern psychiatric hospitals in the the Middle East, influenced the complex relationships between pathology and modernity in the region (and beyond)"-- Provided by publisher.
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