Abi-Rached, J: Asfuriyyeh

Abi-Rached, J: Asfuriyyeh

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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
  • ʿAsfuriyyeh (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 uses the rise and fall of ʿAsfuriyyeh as a lens through which to examine the development of modern psychiatric theory and practice in the region as well as the sociopolitical history of modern Lebanon
  • Abi-Rached shows how ʿAsfuriyyeh's role shifted from a missionary enterprise to a national institution with wide regional influence
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