C Edington
Biographic Data
| ID | 46373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Edington |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Edington |
| SIGNATURE | EDINGTON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8839-7468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Institutionalizing Gender
Re-Writing Pandemic Histories
The COVID-19 pandemic, much like the generation-defining HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, has generated renewed public interest in the history of pandemics, especially their beginnings and endings. Indeed, over the past few years there has been an avalanche of reflection pieces on what past pandemics can offer as mediating devices between past and present, and what clues they offer about the effectiveness of public health measures and cont…
Concluding conversation
Gordon Barrett ( GB ): Research Associate, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK (special issue co-editor)
Biopolitical Vietnam
The administration and management of life, health, and populations—or “biopolitics”—have long been a tacit concern of scholars of historic and contemporary Vietnam. Yet to date, there has been relatively little formal treatment of the constructs of biopolitics or biopower by scholars working in the field of Vietnamese studies. Noting the rich evidence for a “biopolitical Vietnam” already extant in interdisciplinary literatures, this introduction …
Drugs, Willpower, and the Colonial Biopolitics of Addiction in Vietnam
This article examines the early twentieth-century transformation of the opium addict in colonial Vietnam into a distinct category of person, diseased and in need of special forms of intervention. Braiding together French and Vietnamese discourses around drug use and its social consequences, the article traces the development of a specifically colonial biopolitics of addiction. While the proliferation of both legal and illegal drugs came to signif…
Psychiatric patients at work
In colonial Vietnam, mental asylums were designed as large agricultural colonies, where patients would work the land on the path to healing and eventual liberation. This article discusses the role of labor as a kind of therapy for asylum patients, and how French psychiatric experts were constantly drawn into broader networks of care and economy, thereby shifting attention from the asylum itself to the world beyond its walls
Des patients au travail
Dans le Vietnam colonial, les asiles psychiatriques étaient conçus comme de grandes colonies agricoles, où les patients devaient travailler la terre sur le chemin de la guérison et d'une éventuelle libération. Cet article traite du rôle du travail comme une forme de thérapie pour les patients de l'asile, et de la façon dont les experts psychiatriques français étaient constamment entraînés dans des réseaux plus larges de soins et d'économie, dépla…
The Most Social of Maladies
This paper argues that the colonial experience was never just “out there” but was a constitutive feature of the global development of psychiatry and, indeed, of social medicine itself. I show how regional knowledge about psychiatry, produced in scientific exchanges across colonial Southeast Asia over four decades and culminating with the 1937 Bandung Conference, became part of new international approaches to health care in rural areas, and later,…
Beyond the Asylum
This book is a must-read for any specialist in the history of colonial and post-colonial psychiatry, as well as a fantastic case study for those interested in the social history of European colonialism more generally. ― Choice Claire Edington's fascinating look at psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam challenges our notion of the colonial asylum as a closed setting, run by experts with unchallenged authority, from which patients rarely left…
Book Forum
Thuy Linh Nguyen, Childbirth, Maternity and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880–1945
The history of childbirth provides unique insights into the interaction between medical practices, cultural meanings and religious beliefs. It brings both state and non-state actors into the intimate space of the family home. It also addresses a domain of knowledge traditionally controlled by women. In Childbirth, Maternity and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880–1945, Thuy Linh Nguyen brings together these different strands to exa…
C. Michele Thompson, Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
China colonised what is now Vietnam for over 1,000 years and remains a critical reference point for what makes something Vietnamese, from family and kinship structures to forms of civil administration, educational systems and health beliefs. Indeed, as C. Michele Thompson underscores in Vietnamese Traditional Medicine, the tributary relationship between China and Vietnam resulted in the regular and formal exchange of medical texts, practitioners …
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France by Michael Osbourne
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France, by Michael Osbourne. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2014. 328 pp. $50.00 US (cloth). In this volume, Michael Osbourne traces the entangled histories of naval and colonial in France from the Napoleonic era through to World War I. Weaving together the biographies of key doctor-reformers with major shifts in naval regulatory regimes, Osbourne examines how the life worlds of port cities and the…
Building Psychiatric Expertise across Southeast Asia
This paper examines a series of research trips undertaken by French physicians in Indochina to the Dutch East Indies between 1898 and 1937 to study what they saw to be a successful model of a modern psychiatric service that had been developed there. Dutch experiments with forms of 'open door' care and the use of patient labor as therapy, premised on earlier ideas of moral treatment, seemed to hold both therapeutic promise and the key to resolving…
When grammars collide
Throughout the 1990s, a dramatic rise in HIV prevalence rates among drug users in Vietnam attracted the attention of international observers concerned about the prospect of a more generalised epidemic. Vietnam subsequently became the target of extensive funding and advocacy which sought to introduce needle exchange and methadone in a country where drug use was considered a 'social evil', and drug users were subjected to what international observe…
Mixed Medicines
In many ways, Cambodia was considered the backwater of French Indochina. It was often sidelined in colonial budgets, and French doctors and bureaucrats would do their best to avoid a station there. This marginalization is reflected in historical scholarship where Cambodia remains largely a footnote in the history of neighboring Vietnam. Cambodia, however, takes central stage in Sokhieng Au's important and engaging study on the history of medical …
Going in and Getting out of the Colonial Asylum
This paper explores the movements of asylum patients in and out of psychiatric care in French Indochina as the product of everyday interactions between psychiatrists, colonial authorities, and the public, especially patients' families. Throughout the interwar years, families and communities actively participated in psychiatric decision-making in ways that disrupt our notions of the colonial asylum as a closed setting that patients rarely left, ru…
Shorter notice. James V. The Personal Rule, 1528-42. J Cameron
Journal Article James V. The Personal Rule, 1528-42. J Cameron Get access C Edington C Edington Basingstoke, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 459, November 1999, Pages 1302–1303, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.459.1302 Published: 01 November 1999
Building Psychiatric Expertise across Southeast Asia
This paper examines a series of research trips undertaken by French physicians in Indochina to the Dutch East Indies between 1898 and 1937 to study what they saw to be a successful model of a modern psychiatric service that had been developed there. Dutch experiments with forms of 'open door' care and the use of patient labor as therapy, premised on earlier ideas of moral treatment, seemed to hold both therapeutic promise and the key to resolving…
Going in and Getting out of the Colonial Asylum
This paper explores the movements of asylum patients in and out of psychiatric care in French Indochina as the product of everyday interactions between psychiatrists, colonial authorities, and the public, especially patients' families. Throughout the interwar years, families and communities actively participated in psychiatric decision-making in ways that disrupt our notions of the colonial asylum as a closed setting that patients rarely left, ru…
Drugs, Willpower, and the Colonial Biopolitics of Addiction in Vietnam
This article examines the early twentieth-century transformation of the opium addict in colonial Vietnam into a distinct category of person, diseased and in need of special forms of intervention. Braiding together French and Vietnamese discourses around drug use and its social consequences, the article traces the development of a specifically colonial biopolitics of addiction. While the proliferation of both legal and illegal drugs came to signif…
Shorter notice. James V. The Personal Rule, 1528-42. J Cameron
Journal Article James V. The Personal Rule, 1528-42. J Cameron Get access C Edington C Edington Basingstoke, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 459, November 1999, Pages 1302–1303, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.459.1302 Published: 01 November 1999
When grammars collide
Throughout the 1990s, a dramatic rise in HIV prevalence rates among drug users in Vietnam attracted the attention of international observers concerned about the prospect of a more generalised epidemic. Vietnam subsequently became the target of extensive funding and advocacy which sought to introduce needle exchange and methadone in a country where drug use was considered a 'social evil', and drug users were subjected to what international observe…
Mixed Medicines
In many ways, Cambodia was considered the backwater of French Indochina. It was often sidelined in colonial budgets, and French doctors and bureaucrats would do their best to avoid a station there. This marginalization is reflected in historical scholarship where Cambodia remains largely a footnote in the history of neighboring Vietnam. Cambodia, however, takes central stage in Sokhieng Au's important and engaging study on the history of medical …
Going in and Getting out of the Colonial Asylum
This paper explores the movements of asylum patients in and out of psychiatric care in French Indochina as the product of everyday interactions between psychiatrists, colonial authorities, and the public, especially patients' families. Throughout the interwar years, families and communities actively participated in psychiatric decision-making in ways that disrupt our notions of the colonial asylum as a closed setting that patients rarely left, ru…
C. Michele Thompson, Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
China colonised what is now Vietnam for over 1,000 years and remains a critical reference point for what makes something Vietnamese, from family and kinship structures to forms of civil administration, educational systems and health beliefs. Indeed, as C. Michele Thompson underscores in Vietnamese Traditional Medicine, the tributary relationship between China and Vietnam resulted in the regular and formal exchange of medical texts, practitioners …
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France by Michael Osbourne
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France, by Michael Osbourne. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2014. 328 pp. $50.00 US (cloth). In this volume, Michael Osbourne traces the entangled histories of naval and colonial in France from the Napoleonic era through to World War I. Weaving together the biographies of key doctor-reformers with major shifts in naval regulatory regimes, Osbourne examines how the life worlds of port cities and the…
Building Psychiatric Expertise across Southeast Asia
This paper examines a series of research trips undertaken by French physicians in Indochina to the Dutch East Indies between 1898 and 1937 to study what they saw to be a successful model of a modern psychiatric service that had been developed there. Dutch experiments with forms of 'open door' care and the use of patient labor as therapy, premised on earlier ideas of moral treatment, seemed to hold both therapeutic promise and the key to resolving…
Thuy Linh Nguyen, Childbirth, Maternity and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880–1945
The history of childbirth provides unique insights into the interaction between medical practices, cultural meanings and religious beliefs. It brings both state and non-state actors into the intimate space of the family home. It also addresses a domain of knowledge traditionally controlled by women. In Childbirth, Maternity and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880–1945, Thuy Linh Nguyen brings together these different strands to exa…
Beyond the Asylum
This book is a must-read for any specialist in the history of colonial and post-colonial psychiatry, as well as a fantastic case study for those interested in the social history of European colonialism more generally. ― Choice Claire Edington's fascinating look at psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam challenges our notion of the colonial asylum as a closed setting, run by experts with unchallenged authority, from which patients rarely left…
Book Forum
The Most Social of Maladies
This paper argues that the colonial experience was never just “out there” but was a constitutive feature of the global development of psychiatry and, indeed, of social medicine itself. I show how regional knowledge about psychiatry, produced in scientific exchanges across colonial Southeast Asia over four decades and culminating with the 1937 Bandung Conference, became part of new international approaches to health care in rural areas, and later,…
Psychiatric patients at work
In colonial Vietnam, mental asylums were designed as large agricultural colonies, where patients would work the land on the path to healing and eventual liberation. This article discusses the role of labor as a kind of therapy for asylum patients, and how French psychiatric experts were constantly drawn into broader networks of care and economy, thereby shifting attention from the asylum itself to the world beyond its walls
Des patients au travail
Dans le Vietnam colonial, les asiles psychiatriques étaient conçus comme de grandes colonies agricoles, où les patients devaient travailler la terre sur le chemin de la guérison et d'une éventuelle libération. Cet article traite du rôle du travail comme une forme de thérapie pour les patients de l'asile, et de la façon dont les experts psychiatriques français étaient constamment entraînés dans des réseaux plus larges de soins et d'économie, dépla…
Biopolitical Vietnam
The administration and management of life, health, and populations—or “biopolitics”—have long been a tacit concern of scholars of historic and contemporary Vietnam. Yet to date, there has been relatively little formal treatment of the constructs of biopolitics or biopower by scholars working in the field of Vietnamese studies. Noting the rich evidence for a “biopolitical Vietnam” already extant in interdisciplinary literatures, this introduction …
Drugs, Willpower, and the Colonial Biopolitics of Addiction in Vietnam
This article examines the early twentieth-century transformation of the opium addict in colonial Vietnam into a distinct category of person, diseased and in need of special forms of intervention. Braiding together French and Vietnamese discourses around drug use and its social consequences, the article traces the development of a specifically colonial biopolitics of addiction. While the proliferation of both legal and illegal drugs came to signif…
Re-Writing Pandemic Histories
The COVID-19 pandemic, much like the generation-defining HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, has generated renewed public interest in the history of pandemics, especially their beginnings and endings. Indeed, over the past few years there has been an avalanche of reflection pieces on what past pandemics can offer as mediating devices between past and present, and what clues they offer about the effectiveness of public health measures and cont…
Concluding conversation
Gordon Barrett ( GB ): Research Associate, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK (special issue co-editor)
Institutionalizing Gender
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Colonialism (8 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (8 works) · Historical and Scientific Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (5 works)