Madness and Democracy /

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, then measures should be taken to understand the deepe...

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Main Author: Gauchet, Marcel
Other Authors: Porter, Catherine, Swain, Gladys
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012
Series:New French Thought Series.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central