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Psychiatric Power - (Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France) by M Foucault (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- 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.
- 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.
- 383 Pages
- Medical, Psychiatry
- Series Name: Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France
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About the Book
The fourth volume of Michel Foucault's lectures at the College de France"
Book Synopsis
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.Review Quotes
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 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.Dimensions (Overall): 8.6 Inches (H) x 6.32 Inches (W) x 1.09 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.37 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 383
Genre: Medical
Sub-Genre: Psychiatry
Series Title: Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Theme: General
Format: Hardcover
Author: M Foucault
Language: English
Street Date: April 4, 2006
TCIN: 1007768059
UPC: 9781403969224
Item Number (DPCI): 247-06-7402
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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