Inheriting madness professionalization and psychiatric knowledge in nineteenth-century France /
Historically, one of the recurring arguments in psychiatry has been that heredity is the root cause of mental illness. In Inheriting Madness, Ian Dowbiggin traces the rise in popularity of hereditarianism in France during the second half of the nineteenth century to illuminate the nature and evoluti...
| Main Author: | Dowbiggin, Ian Robert, 1952- |
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| Other Authors: | EBSCOhost. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1991]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (x, 217 pages). |
| Series: |
Medicine and society ;
4. |
| Subjects: |
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Electronic Resource Click Here| Location | Call Number: | Status |
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| CMU Electronic Access | Available |