Article ID: CBB000530104

Tropics, Neurasthenia, and Japanese Colonizers: The Psychiatric Discourses in Late Colonial Taiwan (2004)

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Wu, Yu-chuan (Author)
Teng, Hui-wen (Author)


Taiwan shehui yanjiu jikan (Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies)
Volume: 54
Pages: 61--104


Publication Date: 2004
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Chinese.
Language: Chinese

Describe how the explanatory model of neurasthenia in Taiwan during Japanese colonial period shifted from somatic and climate determinism to psychological model. Japanese psychiatrists emphasized the everyday reality and psychological difficulties experienced by the colonizers, especially those who possessed the highest of Japanese spirits and suggested that the colony life helped preserve Japanese morals, such as perseverance and perfectionism. In so doing they criticized the contemporary extravagance and indulgence introduced by modernization to Japan proper and demanded more investment of efforts and resources from the government to mitigate the hard life in the colony.

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Description On a shift in the explanatory model of neurasthenia based on somatic and climatic causation to one based on psychological models.


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Authors & Contributors
Stahnisch, Frank W.
Casper, Stephen T.
Ebbesson, Sven O. E.
Karakis, Ioannis
Banulescu, Sultana
Zoe M. Adams
Concepts
Neurology
Neurosciences
Psychiatry
Neurological diseases
Psychology
Nervous system
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Modern
Ancient
20th century, late
Places
France
Italy
Germany
Strasbourg (France)
Leipzig (Germany)
Argentina
Institutions
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Reichsuniversität Strassburg
Salpêtrière, Paris
University of Minnesota
Universidad de Buenos Aires
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