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

Goldstein, Jan E.

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ISBN 10: 0226301613 ISBN 13: 9780226301617

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2002

Riassunto

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

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Informazioni sull'autore

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 include Foucault and the Writing of History and two volumes of the Chicago Readings in Western Civilization.

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226301613
• ISBN 13: 9780226301617
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 446
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile