Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974

In this addition to the Collège de France Lecture Series Michel Foucault explores the birth of psychiatry, examining Western society's division of 'mad' and 'sane' and how medicine and law influenced these attitudes. This seminal new work by a leading thinker of the modern age opens new vistas within historical and philosophical study.

Author: M. Foucault
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/14/2008
Pages: 383
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9781403986511

About the Author
Author Michel Foucault: Michel Foucault, acknowledged as the pre-eminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.

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