Sociology

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

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Published:
Jul 14, 2014
1984
Pages:
386
Size:
7 x 10 in.

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.

Originally published in 1984.

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