Asfuriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East by Joelle M. Abi-Rached

Culture and Psychiatry

Asfuriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East

Joelle M. Abi-Rached

312 pages hardcover

1 edition

nonfiction health history
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The development of psychiatry in the Middle East, viewed through the history of one of the first modern mental hospitals in the region.ʿAṣfūriyyeh (formally, the Lebanon Hospital for the Insane) was founded by a Swiss Quaker missionary in 1896, on...

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