Madness and democracy
the modern psychiatric universe
by Marcel Gauchet
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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, then measures should be taken to understand the deepest reaches of the self, including the state of madness.
Marcel Gauchet and Gladys Swain maintain that the asylum originally embodied the revolutionary hope of curing all the insane by saving the glimmer of sanity left in them. Their analysis of why this utopian vision failed ultimately constitutes both a powerful argument for liberalism and a direct challenge to Michel Foucault's indictment of liberal institutions."--BOOK JACKET.
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Madness and Democracy: the Modern Psychiatric Universe
2012, Princeton University Press
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Madness and Democracy: The Modern Psychiatric Universe
2012, Princeton University Press
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Madness and democracy: the modern psychiatric universe
1999, Princeton University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-315) and index.
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