Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century - Softcover

Goldstein, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521395550 ISBN 13: 9780521395557

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Synopsis

Within the Western medical community, French physicians played the most vigorous role in constituting and legitimating the science of psychiatry. In an account that spans the enlightened absolutist experiments of the 1780s through to the early Third Republic the author shows how this was achieved.

About this title

About the Author

Jan Goldstein is a professor of modern European history and a member of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago. Her other books include "Foucault and the Writing of History" and two volumes of the" Chicago Readings in Western Civilization."

From the Inside Flap

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521395550
• ISBN 13: 9780521395557
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 427