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Psychiatric Power - Foucault, Michel
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In Psychiatric Power , the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the Coll???ge de France, Michel Foucault addresses and expands upon the ideas in his seminal Madness and Civilization , sketching the genealogy of psychiatry and of its characteristic form of power/knowledge. Madness and Civilization undertook the archeology of the division according to which, in Western Society, the madman found himself separated from the sane. That book ends with the medicalization of madness at the beginning ...

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Psychiatric Power 2008, St. Martins Press-3PL, New York

ISBN-13: 9780312203313

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