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Psychiatric Power M. Foucault

Psychiatric Power By M. Foucault

Psychiatric Power by M. Foucault

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In this new addition to the College 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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Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the College de France, 1973-1974 by M. Foucault

In this new addition to the College 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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Praise for Michel Foucault:

[Foucault] must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists. - The New York Times Book Review

Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are...[His work carries] out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture. - The Nation

About M. Foucault

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction Translator's Note 7 November 1973 14 November 1973 21 November 1973 28 November 1973 5 December 1973 12 December 1973 19 December 1973 9 January 1974 16 January 1974 23 January 1974 30 January 1974 6 February 1974 Course Summary Course Context Index of Notions Index of Names Index of Places

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GOR013250560
9781403969224
1403969221
Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the College de France, 1973-1974 by M. Foucault
M. Foucault
Michel Foucault, Lectures at the College de France
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Palgrave USA
20060404
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