Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974 (Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France) - Softcover

Foucault, M.

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9781403986511: Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974 (Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France)
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ISBN 10: 1403986517 ISBN 13: 9781403986511
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1403986517
ISBN 13 
9781403986511
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
407
Editor
Davidson A.
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