Psychiatric Power : Lectures at the College de France, 1973-1974
by
M. Foucault
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1403969221
ISBN-13
9781403969224
Publisher
Palgrave USA
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 4th, 2006
Print length
383 Pages
Weight
628 grams
Dimensions
22.20 x 16.20 x 2.70 cms
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In this new 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.
In this new addition to the Collège de France lecture series, Michel Foucault''s historical enquiry into the uses and techniques of power and knowledge finds itself directed towards a study of the birth of psychiatry. Psychiatric Power shows not only how Western society''s division of the "mad" from the "sane" began, but also how society, medicine, and law and their treatment of the "mad" developed into what we now recognize as modern psychiatry, and how modern social and political attitudes towards madness developed. A seminal work by this leading thinker of the modern age, Psychiatric Power builds on Foucault''s published writings while opening new vistas within historical and philosophical study.
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