Psychiatric Power
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974, Michel Foucault, Lectures at the C
Davidson, A /
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01.04.2006, Auflage: 1. Auflage
Beschreibung
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.
Autorenportrait
Author Michel Foucault: Michel Foucault, acknowledged as the pre-eminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.
