Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century

By Jan E. Goldstein

Book Overview

Since its publication in 1989, Console and Classify has become a classic work in the history of science and in French intellectual history. Now with a new afterword, this much-cited and much-discussed book gives readers the chance to revisit the rise of psychiatry in nineteenth-century France, the shape it took and why, and its importance both then and in contemporary society.

"Goldstein has raised our understanding of the politics of psychiatric professionalization on to a new plane."-Roy Porter, Times Higher Education Supplement

" A]n historiographical tour de force, quite simply the most insightful work on the subject in English or any other language. . . . A] work of distinctive originality. . . . It is written with lucidity and elegance, even a certain confident scholarly panache, that make it a pleasure to read."-Toby Gelfand, Social History

"Exhaustively researched, elegantly written, and persuasively argued, Console and Classify is an excellent example of the . . . sociologically informed intellectual history, stimulated by Kuhn and Foucault."-Robert Alun Jones, American Journal of Sociology

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226301613
• ISBN13: 9780226301617
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"