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

University of Chicago Press
 9780226301617
0-226-30161-3

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.