Name: Psychiatric Power
ISBN: 978-1-4039-8651-1

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Authors:

M. Foucault

M. Foucault

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A. Davidson

A. Davidson

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Part of the book series: Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France (MFL)

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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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Michel Foucault
philosophy
psychiatry

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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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Book Title: Psychiatric Power
Book Subtitle: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974
Authors: M. Foucault
Editors: A. Davidson
Series Title: Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8651-1Published: 14 August 2008
Series ISSN: 2947-728X
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7298
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 383

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