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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Nye, Robert A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1984
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 763
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (386 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400856275; 9783110413441; 9783110413601; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400856275
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert A. Nye.

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.