Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century
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Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century
Since its publication in 1989, Console and Classify has become a classic work in the history of science and in French intellectual history. Now with a new afterword, this much-cited and much-discussed book gives readers the chance to revisit the rise of psychiatry in nineteenth-century France, the shape it took and why, and its importance both then and in contemporary society.
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