Psychiatric Power

Psychiatric Power Lectures at the Collège De France, 1973-1974

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Publisher's Synopsis

This title shows how Western society's division of the 'mad' from the 'sane' began, and how the apparatus of society, the institutions of medicine and law, and their treatment of the 'mad' developed into modern psychiatry and modern social and political attitudes towards madness.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780312203313
Publisher: Picador
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
DEWEY: 616.89001
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xxiv, 382
Weight: 340g
Height: 208mm
Width: 137mm
Spine width: 23mm