Psychiatric Power

Psychiatric Power Lectures at the Collège De France, 1973-74 - Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège De France

2008

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781403986511
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 2008
DEWEY: 616.89001
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 382
Weight: 504g
Height: 215mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 22mm