Book Review: Foucault's Re-Examination of Disciplinary Power in Psychiatry

Tiffany F. Jones

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Abstract: Review of Michel Foucault. _Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the College de France, 1973-1974_b. Translated by Graham Burchell. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. $28.95 (cloth).

Keywords: psychiatry; psychiatric power; Foucault; madness; mental illness; theories of madness; psychology; medicine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-12
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