Inheriting madness
Subtitle: professionalization and psychiatric knowledge in nineteenth-century France
By: Ian R. Dowbiggin.
Series: Medicine and society;; 4
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Société médico-psychologique; Psychiatry -- France -- History -- 19th century; Mental illness -- France -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-211) and index.
"Began as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Rochester"--P. ix.