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Psychiatric Power

Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974

M Foucault author Graham Burchell translator A Davidson editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave USA

Published:4th Apr '06

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In this new 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.

Praise for Michel Foucault:

"[Foucault] must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists." - The New York Times Book Review

"Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are...[His work carries] out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture." - The Nation

ISBN: 9781403969224

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 666g

383 pages