| Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century Contributor(s): Goldstein, Jan E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226301613 ISBN-13: 9780226301617 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2002 Annotation: Since its publication in 1987, "Console and Classify" has become a classic work in the history of science and in French intellectual and cultural 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | History - Medical | Psychiatry - General |
| Dewey: 616.890 |
| LCCN: 2001027895 |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 5.96" W x 9.06" (1.30 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. |