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Book Detail
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Madness in the Family:
Women, Care, and Illness in Japan
Kim, H. Yumi
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Category: History of Medicine Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Affiliation: The Johns Hopkins University Audience: Professional and scholarly Dimensions: 6.36 x 0.83 x 9.34 in
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Synopsis:
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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