Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century

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pp. xiii, (1), 414, “Within the Western medical community, French physicians played the most vigorous role in constituting and legitimating the science of psychiatry. In an account that spans the enlightened absolutist experiments of the 1780s through to the early Third Republic the author shows how this was achieved. “

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ISBN 521395550
ISBN13 9780521395557
Number of pages 414
Original Title Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century
Published Date 1991
Book Condition Very Good
Jacket Condition No Dj
Binding Ppbk
Size 8vo
Place of Publication West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.
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pp. xiii, (1), 414, “Within the Western medical community, French physicians played the most vigorous role in constituting and legitimating the science of psychiatry. In an account that spans the enlightened absolutist experiments of the 1780s through to the early Third Republic the author shows how this was achieved. “

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Weight 1 kg