Since its publication in 1989,Console and Classifyhas 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.
Jan Goldsteinis a professor of modern European history and a member of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago. Her other books includeFoucault and the Writing of Historyand two volumes of theChicago Readings in Western Civilization.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Profession in context
The corporate model
The statist model
The laissez-faire model
Redefinition
2. Toward psychiatry
The bureaucracy: health police of the insane
General medical theory: medicine as anthropology
Specialization
3. The transformation of charlatanism, or the moral treatment
Philippe Pinel: a medical career in political context
Pinel and the concierges : the origins of the moral treatment
What was the moral treatment?
Scientizing the treatment
A therapy for the Revolution
Healthy sentimentality
4. The politics of patronage
The Pinel circle
The Esquirol circle
The dynamics of recruitment: specialization and the doctor glut
5. Monomania
The initial definition of the disease
Professional ramifications (I): charting mental tendencies
Professional ramifications (II): the emergence of forensic psychiatry
A boundary dispute with the legal profession
The elusive insanity: its partisans and itslĂ!
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