作者：EmilyBaum
出版社：UniversityofChicagoPress
副标题：State,Society,andtheInsaneinModernChina
出版年：2018-10-1
页数：304
定价：GBP84.50
装帧：Hardcover
丛书： StudiesoftheWeatherheadEastAsianInstitute
ISBN：9780226580616
内容简介
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Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the proper treatment for the mentally ill. In The Invention of Madness, Emily Baum traces a genealogy of insanity from the turn of the century to the onset of war with Japan in 1937, revealing the complex and convoluted ways in which “madness” was transformed in the Chinese imagination into “mental illness.”
Focusing on typically marginalized historical actors, including municipal functionaries and the urban poor, The Invention of Madness shifts our attention from the elite desire for modern medical care to the ways in which psychiatric discourses were implemented and redeployed in the midst of everyday life. New meanings and practices of madness, Baum argues, were not just imposed on the Beijing public but continuously invented by a range of people in ways that reflected their own needs and interests. Exhaustively researched and theoretically informed, The Invention of Madness is an innovative contribution to medical history, urban studies, and the social history of twentieth-century China.
作者简介
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Emily Baum is associate professor of modern Chinese history at the University of California, Irvine.
目录
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Contracting the “Mad Illness”
2 The Birth of the Chinese Asylum, 1901–1918
3 The Institutionalization of Madness, 1910s–1920s
4 The Psychiatric Entrepreneur, 1920s–1930s
5 From Madness to Mental Illness, 1928–1935
6 Mental Hygiene and Political Control, 1928–1937
7 Between the Mad and the Mentally Ill
Conclusion
Glossary of Chinese Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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书中有一个点提得非常好，即疯癫曾经被视为感冒一样的疾病，而“感冒患者”并不是一种身份。疯病之演变为身份，其实是现代医学的理性权威逐渐进入日常生活的过程。这个理性权威一方面被国家利用，因为它用科学的话语证明了国家管控私人生活的必要性。西方医学的介入还可以作为中国进入现代的标志，在获得国际承认的同时服务于权力的目的。而另一方面，人们也欢迎这种权威的介入，因为它为现代生活中的种种问题提供了解释，甚至疯人…
看标题很期待，但内容是弱且材料间非连贯的，将精神病学纳入国家治理视角下是很棒的做法，但中国对精神病学的忽视让这本书实际上没什么内容可以串联，还是那一套：西方医学知识入侵，疾病与国家治理技术。使用年代史的方式叙述似乎缺少了重点，而且停在二战结束也挺遗憾的，精神病学兴起以及和国家管控产生紧密联系不是近十几年来才大量产生的么？
总体还可以吧，但是感觉没把madness和modernity真正说清楚…
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