Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974
ByMichel Foucault,Graham Burchell(Translator)
2003 • 382 pages

In this new addition to the Collège de France Lecture Series Michel Foucault explores the birth of psychiatry, examining Western society's division of 'mad' and 'sane' and how medicine and law influenced these attitudes. This seminal new work by a leading thinker of the modern age opens new vistas within historical and philosophical study.

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#4 in Cours au Collège de France/Lectures at the Collège de France

Cours au Collège de France/Lectures at the Collège de France is a 10-book series with 10 primary works first released in 1975 with contributions by Michel Foucault, Arnold I. Davidson, and Graham Burchell.

#1
Lectures on the Will to Know: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1970-1971, & Oedipal Knowledge
#2
Penal Theories and Institutions: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1971-1972
#4
Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974
#5
Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975
#6
"Society Must Be Defended"
#7
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978
#8
Nacimiento de la biopolitica. Curso del Collège de France, 1978-1979
#12
The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1982–1983
#13
The Courage of Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983-1984

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