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Book SynopsisRobert 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 Pri
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. xi*Chapter I. The Historical Study of Deviance, pg. 1*Chapter II. Criminal Law, Medicine, and Justice in the Nineteenth Century, pg. 22*Chapter III. Between MacMahon and Boulanger: Crime and the "Moral Order" of the Opportunist Republic, pg. 49*Chapter IV. Heredity or Milieu: The Born-Criminal Debate and the Foundations of Criminology, pg. 97*Chapter V. Metaphors of Pathology in the Belle Epoque: The Rise of a Medical Model of Cultural Crisis, pg. 132*Chapter VI. The Politics of Social Defense: Violent Crime, "Apaches," and the Press at the Turn of the Century, pg. 171*Chapter VII. The Boundaries of Responsibility: Asylum Law and Legal Medicine in an Era of Social Defense, pg. 227*Chapter VIII. 1908: The Capital-Punishment Debate in the Chamber of Deputies, pg. 265*Chapter IX. Sport, Regeneration, and National Revival, pg. 310*Chapter X. Conclusion: Comparative Reflections on Great Britain and Germany, pg. 330*Bibliography, pg. 341*Index, pg. 361
