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Inheriting madness : professionalization and psychiatric knowledge in nineteenth-century France /

Historically, one of the recurring arguments in psychiatry has been that heredity is the root cause of mental illness. In Inheriting Madness, Ian Dowbiggin traces the rise in popularity of hereditarianism in France during the second half of the nineteenth century to illuminate the nature and evoluti...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dowbiggin, Ian Robert, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1991.
Series:Medicine and society ; 4.
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Online Access:Texto completo