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Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France : The Medical Concept of National Decline / Robert A. Nye.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 763Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1984Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (386 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691612614
  • 9781400856275
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.5/42/0944 19
LOC classification:
  • HN440.P8
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter I. The Historical Study of Deviance -- Chapter II. Criminal Law, Medicine, and Justice in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter III. Between MacMahon and Boulanger: Crime and the "Moral Order" of the Opportunist Republic -- Chapter IV. Heredity or Milieu: The Born-Criminal Debate and the Foundations of Criminology -- Chapter V. Metaphors of Pathology in the Belle Epoque: The Rise of a Medical Model of Cultural Crisis -- Chapter VI. The Politics of Social Defense: Violent Crime, "Apaches," and the Press at the Turn of the Century -- Chapter VII. The Boundaries of Responsibility: Asylum Law and Legal Medicine in an Era of Social Defense -- Chapter VIII. 1908: The Capital-Punishment Debate in the Chamber of Deputies -- Chapter IX. Sport, Regeneration, and National Revival -- Chapter X. Conclusion: Comparative Reflections on Great Britain and Germany -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: 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 books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter I. The Historical Study of Deviance -- Chapter II. Criminal Law, Medicine, and Justice in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter III. Between MacMahon and Boulanger: Crime and the "Moral Order" of the Opportunist Republic -- Chapter IV. Heredity or Milieu: The Born-Criminal Debate and the Foundations of Criminology -- Chapter V. Metaphors of Pathology in the Belle Epoque: The Rise of a Medical Model of Cultural Crisis -- Chapter VI. The Politics of Social Defense: Violent Crime, "Apaches," and the Press at the Turn of the Century -- Chapter VII. The Boundaries of Responsibility: Asylum Law and Legal Medicine in an Era of Social Defense -- Chapter VIII. 1908: The Capital-Punishment Debate in the Chamber of Deputies -- Chapter IX. Sport, Regeneration, and National Revival -- Chapter X. Conclusion: Comparative Reflections on Great Britain and Germany -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter

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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 books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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