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

Goldstein, Jan E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226301613 ISBN 13: 9780226301617

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.

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.

From the Back Cover

Since its publication in 1987, Console and Classify has become a classic work in the history of science and in French intellectual and cultural 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.

From the Inside Flap

Since its publication in 1987, Console and Classify has become a classic work in the history of science and in French intellectual and cultural 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.

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Since its publication in 1987, Console and Classify has become a classic work in the history of science and in French intellectual and cultural 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226301613
• ISBN 13: 9780226301617
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 464