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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés Francés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
1999.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Advent, apotheosis, and failure of the asylum establishment
- pt. 2. The passions as a sketch of a general theory of mental alienation.


