Ian Dowbiggin, Inheriting madness: professionalization and psychiatric knowledge in nineteenth-century France, Medicine and Society 4, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1991, pp. x, 217, $34.95 (0-52006937-4).

Roger Smith

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Ian Dowbiggin, Inheriting madness: professionalization and psychiatric knowledge in nineteenth-century France, Medicine and Society 4, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1991, pp. x, 217, $34.95 (0-52006937-4).

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Information: Medical History , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 1992 , pp. 341 - 342

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Ian Dowbiggin, Inheriting madness: professionalization and psychiatric knowledge in nineteenth-century France, Medicine and Society 4, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1991, pp. x, 217, $34.95 (0-52006937-4).

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