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

by Robert A. Nye

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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 Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691054142

ISBN13:9780691054148

Release Date:July 1984

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:384 Pages

Weight:0.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"

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