Author: FOUCAULT, MICHEL (1926-1984), AUTHOR; LAGRANGE, JACQUES (1933-), EDITOR; BURCHELL, GRAHAM, TRANSLATOR
Title: Psychiatric power: lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-74 / Michel Foucault; edited by Jacques Lagrange; translated by Graham Burchell
Description: Basingstoke. Hampshire [England]; New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2006. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxiv. 382 p.; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Series; Lectures at the College De France. Notes; Originally published as: Le pouvoir psychiatrique. Seuil/Gallimard. c2003. In series: Hautes études. Translated from French. Contents; Foreword Introduction Translator's Note 7 November 1973 14 November 1973 21 November 1973 28 November 1973 5 December 1973 12 December 1973 19 December 1973 9 January 1974 16 January 1974 23 January 1974 30 January 1974 6 February 1974 Course Summary Course Context Index of Notions Index of Names Index of Places. Summary; Part of the 'College de France Lecture' series. this book shows how Western society's division of the 'mad' from the 'sane' began. and how the apparatuses of society. the institutions of medicine and law. and their treatment of the 'mad' developed into modern psychiatry and modern social and political attitudes towards madness. In this new addition to the College 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. Subjects; Psychiatry - Philosophy. Philosophy. Medical - Lectures. Psychiatry - history - Lectures. Institutionalization - methods - Lectures. Mental Disorders - rehabilitation - Lectures. Power (Psychology) - Lectures. HPCT33: Phenomenology & Existentialism. Mental illness - History. Philosophy. Medical. Institutionalization - methods. Mental Disorders - rehabilitation. Phenomenology & Existentialism; Philosophy of religion. Postwar period. 1945 to c 2000. MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General. PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern. ISBN: 1403969221. Weight in Kg appr.:

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