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By Chris Horrocks

ISBN-10: 1840460865

ISBN-13: 9781840460865

Foucault overturned many assumptions approximately insanity, sexuality and illegal activity, and highlighted the brutal social practices of confinement and confession. This publication describes his techniques to those difficulties via psychiatry and scientific medication.

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