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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michel Foucault , Frank JellinekPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press Dimensions: Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.331kg ISBN: 9780803268579ISBN 10: 0803268572 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 December 1982 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsFor Foucault, Riviere provides the 'excuse' to examine power structures and social institutions, to question the scientificity of medical science, and to delineate the chaos of values and beliefs, of knowledge and power as it existed 150 years ago--a chaos we have not yet eliminated. --Edith Kurzweil, The Age of Structuralism --Edith Kurzweil A spell-binding account-not only of the murder of a family by a ''madman,'' but also the murder of free will and responsibility by the mad-doctors. A glimpse into the birth of the psychiatrization of law, the medicalization of crime, and the therapeutization of justice. -Thomas S. Szasz, M.D. -- Thomas S. Szasz Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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