The Invention of Madness

书名：The Invention of MadnessState,Society,andtheInsaneinModernChina
作者：EmilyBaum
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ISBN：9780226580616
出版社：UniversityofChicagoPress
出版时间：2018-10-1
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：304
豆瓣评分： 7.9

书籍简介：

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：

Emily Baum is associate professor of modern Chinese history at the University of California, Irvine.

书友短评：

@ Xylon 语言好棒…… @ KK Ad Astra 主体是从清末到二战前北京精神病学的发展，但感觉内容连贯性不高。收容院的社会史，神经衰弱与消费主义的经典话题，精神卫生与国家政权，第七章没啥必要。(果然还是精神病学在中国没啥内容吗) 国际精神卫生运动补充了不少文献 @ Celeste 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？ @ 明月胜 既然madness不仅是社会控制的一部分，也有病理性的实质，那么除了国家搭上modernity的快车增强社会控制之外，有没有在医疗发展上做出努力呢… @ KK Ad Astra 现代性是一个多部件组成的模块，而不是铁板一块。现代性之下的民族、理性、去人格化也是如此。作者对madness和mental ill的研究在这方面具有相当的启发。也是读到这本书的conclusion为止，我才理解“铁板一块”。 @ Xylon 很有趣的议题，可惜没讲透，如果能拓展到共和国应该是很有颠覆性的 @ angry crane Topic很好，就是看着看着感觉快散架了…… @ 马耶！ 第四、六章最有意思

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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　　Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute(共12册)，这套丛书还有《The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950》《Revolution Goes East》《Mass Vaccination》《Vernacular Industrialism in China》《Tyranny of the Weak》等。

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