Madness and Democracy : The Modern Psychiatric Universe /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gauchet, Marcel
Other Authors: Swain, Gladys, 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Psychiatry > History.
Psychiatric hospital care > France > History > 19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals > History > 19th century.
Sociale aspecten.
Psychiatrische inrichtingen.
Psychische stoornissen.
Psychiatric hospital care.
Power (Social sciences)
Mental illness > Social aspects.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health.
44.91 psychiatry, psychopathology.
psychiatric hospitals.
Contrôle (Psychologie)
Hôpitaux psychiatriques.
Maladies mentales > Traitement.
Maladies mentales > Aspect social.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
Hôpitaux psychiatriques > Soins.
Psychotherapy > methods
Power, Psychological
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Mental Disorders > therapy
Control (Psychology)
Psychiatric hospitals.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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 deepest reaches of the self, including the state of madness. Marcel Gauchet and Gladys Swain maintain that the asylum originally embodied the revolutionary hope of curing all the insane by saving the glimmer of sanity left in them. Their analysis of why this utopian vision failed ultimately constitutes both a powerful argument for liberalism and a direct challenge to Michel Foucault's indictment of liberal institutions."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:1 online resource (350 pages).
ISBN:9781400822874

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