num_pages: 464
description: 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.
language: English
title: Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century
titlecomplete: Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century
genres: History Of Science, European History, History, Psychology, France
ratings_count: 21
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
publisher: University of Chicago Press