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

Author/Contributor(s):	Goldstein, Jan E
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	02/02/2002
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.