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Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France: The Medical Concept of National Decline

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Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France: The Medical Concept of National Decline

Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France: The Medical Concept of National Decline By Robert A. Nye
2014 | 386 Pages | ISBN: 0691612617 , 0691054142 | PDF | 23 MB


Robert A. Nye places in historical context a medical concept of deviance that developed in France in the last half of the nineteenth century, when medical models of cultural crisis linked thinking about crime, mental illness, prostitution, alcoholism, suicide, and other pathologies to French national decline.