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Psychiatric Power

Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. M. Foucault
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Editors:
  1. A. Davidson
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Keywords

  • Michel Foucault
  • philosophy
  • psychiatry

About this book

In this 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.

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Psychiatric Power

  • Book Subtitle: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974

  • Authors: M. Foucault

  • Editors: A. Davidson

  • Series Title: Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8651-1Published: 14 August 2008

  • Series ISSN: 2947-728X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-7298

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 383

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