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.
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Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France
The Medical Concept of National Decline
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Publisher
Princeton University PressYear
2014Print ISBN
9780691612614
9780691054148
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9781400856275
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I The Historical Study of Deviance
- II Criminal Law, Medicine, and Justice in the Nineteenth Century
- III Between MacMahon and Boulanger: Crime and the "Moral Order" of the Opportunist Republic
- IV Heredity or Milieu: The Born-Criminal Debate and the Foundations of Criminology
- V Metaphors of Pathology in the Belle Epoque: The Rise of a Medical Model of Cultural Crisis
- VI The Politics of Social Defense: Violent Crime, "Apaches," and the Press at the Turn of the Century
- VII The Boundaries of Responsibility: Asylum Law and Legal Medicine in an Era of Social Defense
- VIII 1908: The Capital-Punishment Debate in the Chamber of Deputies
- IX Sport, Regeneration, and National Revival
- X Conclusion: Comparative Reflections on Great Britain and Germany
- Bibliography
- Index
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