To view prices and purchase online, please login, or register for an account.
Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France: The Medical Concept of National Decline
(Hardback)
Available Formats
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France: The Medical Concept of National Decline
Contributors:
By (Author) Robert A. Nye
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
302.5420944
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
386
Dimensions:
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
Weight:
879g
Description
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. The Pri
