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Console and Classify The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century With a New Afterword

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  • ISBN-13: 9780226301600
  • ISBN: 0226301605
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press

AUTHOR

Goldstein, Jan E.

SUMMARY

Since its publication in 1989,Console and Classifyhas 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."Goldstein has raised our understanding of the politics of psychiatric professionalization on to a new plane."--Roy Porter,Times Higher Education Supplement"[A]n historiographical tour de force, quite simply the most insightful work on the subject in English or any other language. . . . [A] work of distinctive originality. . . . It is written with lucidity and elegance, even a certain confident scholarly panache, that make it a pleasure to read."--Toby Gelfand,Social History"Exhaustively researched, elegantly written, and persuasively argued,Console and Classifyis an excellent example of the . . . sociologically informed intellectual history, stimulated by Kuhn and Foucault."--Robert Alun Jones,American Journal of SociologyGoldstein, Jan E. is the author of 'Console and Classify The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century With a New Afterword' with ISBN 9780226301600 and ISBN 0226301605.

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