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Madness in the family, women, care, and illness in Japan, H. Yumi Kim

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Madness in the family

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1347719974

H. Yumi Kim

Oxford scholarship online.

women, care, and illness in Japan

'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.--, Provided by publisher

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