What <i>Sujet de la folie</i>? Gladys Swain and Marcel Gauchet’s Search for an Alternative History of Madness
Inspired by three monographs of Gladys Swain and Marcel Gauchet, my presentation traces the rise of the new science of psychiatry in Revolutionary France, with Philippe Pinel and his student J.-E. Esquirol. As the directors of the division of the aliénés in the Hôpital Bicêtre (Paris), Pinel and Esq...
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University of Windsor
2010-12-01
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| Series: | PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture |
| Online Access: | https://phaenex.uwindsor.ca/index.php/phaenex/article/view/3085 |