Within the Western medical community, French physicians played the most vigorous role in constituting and legitimating the science of psychiatry. In an account that spans the enlightened absolutist experiments of the 1780s through to the early Third Republic the author shows how this was achieved.
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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.
Jan Goldstein is a professor of modern European history and a member of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago. Her other books includeFoucault and the Writing of History and two volumes of the Chicago Readings in Western Civilization.
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