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

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.

Authors: Jan E. Goldstein

Format: Paperback

Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780226301617

Publication date: 20020202