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Madness and Democracy
Madness and Democracy
Author: Marcel Gauchet, Gladys Swain
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691033723
ISBN-10: 0691033722
Publication Date: 5/3/1999
Pages: 323
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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