| Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Foucault, M. (Author), Loparo, Kenneth A. (Translator), Davidson, A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1403986517 ISBN-13: 9781403986511 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $28.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Psychiatry - General - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology |
| Dewey: 616.890 |
| Series: Michel Foucault: Lectures at the College de France |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.04 lbs) 383 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this addition to the Coll ge 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. |