This series of lectures begins with an examinaton of the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice, & its method of categorizing individuals who 'resemble their crime before they commit it'. Foucault shows how & why defining abnormality & normality were prerogatives of power in the 19th century.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Abnormalities, Human -- Social aspects -- History.
Philosophical anthropology -- History.
Power (Social sciences) -- History.
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Michel Foucault
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Antonella Salomoni
edited by Valerio Marchetti and Antonella Salomoni