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

by Robert A. Nye

Book Overview

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"