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This series of lectures begins with an examinaton of the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice, & its method of categorizing individuals who 'resemble their crime before they commit it'. Foucault shows how & why defining abnormality & normality were prerogatives of power in the 19th century.
| ISBN: | 9780312424053 |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Pub date: | 01 Sep 2004 |
| DEWEY: | 194 |
| DEWEY edition: | 23 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 374 |
| Weight: | 508g |
| Height: | 211mm |
| Width: | 140mm |
| Spine width: | 20mm |
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