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Madness and democracy : the modern psychiatric universe /

"How the insane asylum became a laboratory of democracy is revealed in this provocative look at the treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century France. Political thinkers reasoned that if government was to rest in the hands of individuals, then measures should be taken to understand the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gauchet, Marcel
Otros Autores: Swain, Gladys, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©1999.
Colección:New French thought.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Advent, apotheosis, and failure of the asylum establishment
  • pt. 2. The passions as a sketch of a general theory of mental alienation.