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Psychiatric Power

Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974

M Foucault author Graham Burchell translator A Davidson editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave USA

Published:14th Aug '08

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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

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 517g

383 pages