Asfuriyyeh

Joelle M Abi-Rached

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MIT Press
19 January 2021

Social & cultural history; Care of the mentally ill; History of medicine; Psychiatry

"The development of psychiatry in the Middle East, viewed through the history of one of the first modern mental hospitals in the region.

The development of psychiatry in the Middle East, viewed through the history of one of the first modern mental hospitals in the region._x02BF_Asfūriyyeh (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 uses the rise and fall of

x02BF_Asfūriyyeh as a lens through which to examine the development of modern psychiatric theory and practice in the region as well as the sociopolitical history of modern Lebanon.

Abi-Rached shows how

x02BF_Asfūriyyeh's role shifted from a missionary enterprise to a national institution with wide regional influence. She offers a gripping chronicle of patients' and staff members' experiences during the Lebanese Civil War and analyzes the hospital's distinctive nonsectarian philosophy. When

x02BF_Asfūriyyeh closed down, health in general and mental health in particular became more visibly ""sectarianized""-monopolized by various religious and political actors. Once hailed for its progressive approach to mental illness and its cosmopolitanism,

x02BF_Asfūriyyeh became a stigmatizing term, a byword for madness and deviance, ultimately epitomizing a failed project of modernity. Reflecting on the afterlife of this and other medical institutions, especially those affected by war, Abi-Rached calls for a new ""ethics of memory,"" more attuned to our global yet increasingly fragmented, unstable, and violent present."

By: Joelle M Abi-Rached
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780262044745
ISBN 10: 0262044749
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 19 January 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joelle M. Abi-Rached, MD, PhD, is a Fellow at Columbia University's Society of Fellows in the Humanities and an invited researcher at the cole normale superieure and the cole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales. She is the coauthor of Neuro- The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind.

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