Inheriting Madness, Volume 4: Professionalization and Psychiatric Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century France by Ian Dowbiggin

Inheriting Madness, Volume 4: Professionalization and Psychiatric Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century France

Medicine and Society

Ian Dowbiggin

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nonfiction history psychology
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Historically, one of the recurring arguments in psychiatry has been that heredity is the root cause of mental illness. In Inheriting Madness, Ian Dowbiggin traces the rise in popularity of hereditarianism in France during the second half of the ni...

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