Psychiatric Power Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974
Description
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.
Keywords
Social ScienceSociologyPhilosophyPsychologyClinical PsychologyMovementsHistoryMind & BodyScience
2006Book
Author(s)Michel Foucault
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781403969224
LanguageEnglish
