Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France : The Medical Concept of National Decline

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Robert A. Nye places in historical context a medical concept of deviance that developed in France in the last half of the nineteenth century, when medical models of cultural crisis linked thinking about crime, mental illness, prostitution, alcoholism, suicide, and other pathologies to French nationa...

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Main Author: Nye, Robert A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Public opinion.
Politics and government.
Physicians > Attitudes.
Deviant behavior > Public opinion.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Degenerescence > Opinion publique > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Medecins > France > Attitudes > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Opinion publique > France > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Criminal justice, Administration of > France > History > 19th century.
Degeneration > Public opinion > History > 19th century.
Physicians > France > Attitudes > History > 19th century.
Deviant behavior > Public opinion > History > 19th century.
Public opinion > France > History > 19th century.
France.
France > Politique et gouvernement > 1870-1940.
France > Politics and government > 1870-1940.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Robert A. Nye places in historical context a medical concept of deviance that developed in France in the last half of the nineteenth century, when medical models of cultural crisis linked thinking about crime, mental illness, prostitution, alcoholism, suicide, and other pathologies to French national decline. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original t.
Physical Description:1 online resource (384 pages).
ISBN:9781400856275

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