Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century - Hardcover

Goldstein, Jan E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226301605 ISBN 13: 9780226301600

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2002

Synopsis

Since its publication in 1989, Console and Classify has become a classic work in the history of science and in French intellectual history. Now with a new afterword, this much-cited and much-discussed book gives readers the chance to revisit the rise of psychiatry in nineteenth-century France, the shape it took and why, and its importance both then and in contemporary society.

"Goldstein has raised our understanding of the politics of psychiatric professionalization on to a new plane."—Roy Porter, Times Higher Education Supplement

"[A]n historiographical tour de force, quite simply the most insightful work on the subject in English or any other language. . . . [A] work of distinctive originality. . . . It is written with lucidity and elegance, even a certain confident scholarly panache, that make it a pleasure to read."—Toby Gelfand, Social History

"Exhaustively researched, elegantly written, and persuasively argued, Console and Classify is an excellent example of the . . . sociologically informed intellectual history, stimulated by Kuhn and Foucault."—Robert Alun Jones, American Journal of Sociology

About this title

About the Author

Jan E. Goldstein is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History at the University of Chicago and the academic director of the University of Chicago Center in Paris.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226301605
• ISBN 13: 9780226301600
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 464