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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.… (more)

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Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the College de France 1973-1974 by Michel Foucault

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Michel Foucault	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Lagrange, Jacques	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Pons, Horacio	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Le pouvoir psychiatrique. Cours au Collège de France. 1973-1974

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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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