Madness and Democracy: The Modern Psychiatric Universe by Gladys Swain, Marcel Gauchet

Madness and Democracy: The Modern Psychiatric Universe

Gladys Swain, Marcel Gauchet

360 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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How the insane asylum became a laboratory of democracy is revealed in this provocative look at the treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century France. Political thinkers reasoned that if government was to rest in the hands of individuals, ...

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