{"product_id":"its-madness-theodore-jun-yoo-9780520289307","title":"It's Madness: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea","description":"\u003ci\u003eIt's Madness \u003c\/i\u003eexamines 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 Drawing upon unpublished archival as well as printed sources, this is the first study to examine the ways in which \"madness\" was understood, classified, and treated in traditional Korea and the role of science in pathologizing and redefining mental illness under Japanese colonial rule.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Theodore Jun Yoo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520289307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520289307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Theodore Jun Yoo","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43919955198207,"sku":"9780520289307","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_11e6e0c3-d821-40bc-b323-0db9694fd66b.jpg?v=1680812837","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/its-madness-theodore-jun-yoo-9780520289307","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}