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

by Joelle M Abi-Rached and Joelle M. Abi-Rached

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, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262044749
• ISBN13: 9780262044745
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"