Console and classify : the French psychiatric profession in the nineteenth century : with a new afterword / Jan Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Jan, 1946-

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry--France--History--19th century.

Psychiatry.

Psychiatrists--France--History--19th century.

Psychiatrists.

History.

France.

Physical Description:

xiii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Summary:

Since its publication in 1989, "Console and Classify has become a classic work in the history of science and in French intellectual 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.

Notes:

Originally published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987. With new afterword.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-397) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0226301605

0226301613

OCLC:

46937497