![]() | Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France: The Medical Concept of National Decline Subjects: Public opinion -- France -- History -- l9th century; Deviant behavior -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century; Physicians -- France -- Attitudes -- History -- l9th century; Degeneration -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century; France -- Politics; 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. |
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