Psychiatric Power

Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974

M Foucault author A Davidson editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave USA

Published:14th Aug '08

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Psychiatric Power cover

In this addition to the Collège de France Lecture Series Michel Foucault explores the birth of psychiatry, examining Western society's division of 'mad' and 'sane' and how medicine and law influenced these attitudes. This seminal new work by a leading thinker of the modern age opens new vistas within historical and philosophical study.

ISBN: 9781403986511

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383 pages