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It´s Madness: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea
Theodore Jun Yoo
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Description for It´s Madness: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea
Hardback. Examines Korea's years under Japanese colonialism, when mental health first became defined as a medical and social problem. This book explores the impact of Chinese traditional medicine and its holistic approach to treating mental disorders, and the resilience of folk illnesses as explanations for inappropriate and dangerous behaviors. Num Pages: 248 pages, 4 black and white. BIC Classification: HBJF; JFSL3; JKSM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
It's Madness examines Korea's years under Japanese colonialism, when mental health first became defined as a medical and social problem. As in most Asian countries, severe social ostracism, shame, and fear of jeopardizing marriage prospects compelled most Korean families to conceal the mentally ill behind closed doors. This book explores the impact of Chinese traditional medicine and its holistic approach to treating mental disorders, the resilience of folk illnesses as explanations for inappropriate and dangerous behaviors, the emergence of clinical psychiatry as a discipline, and the competing models of care under the Japanese colonial authorities and Western missionary doctors. Drawing ... Read more
It's Madness examines Korea's years under Japanese colonialism, when mental health first became defined as a medical and social problem. As in most Asian countries, severe social ostracism, shame, and fear of jeopardizing marriage prospects compelled most Korean families to conceal the mentally ill behind closed doors. This book explores the impact of Chinese traditional medicine and its holistic approach to treating mental disorders, the resilience of folk illnesses as explanations for inappropriate and dangerous behaviors, the emergence of clinical psychiatry as a discipline, and the competing models of care under the Japanese colonial authorities and Western missionary doctors. Drawing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
472g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520289307
SKU
V9780520289307
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About Theodore Jun Yoo
Theodore Jun Yoo is Associate Professor of Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University. He is the author of The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910-1945.
Reviews for It´s Madness: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea
[Breaks] new ground... [Yoo has] offered readers an ambitious challenge: one directed to Korean studies, but also one also carrying its implications far beyond. Cross-Currents