| Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century Contributor(s): Goldstein, Jan E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226301605 ISBN-13: 9780226301600 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2002 Annotation: 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" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | History - Medical | Psychiatry - General |
| Dewey: 616.890 |
| LCCN: 2001027895 |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 6.28" W x 9.36" (1.61 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |