Psychiatric Power

Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974
2006
ISBN: 978-1-4039-6922-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 383 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 645 g

Reihe: Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foucault, M.

Davidson, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.