Pub Date: April 23, 2013
Dewey: 616.89
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.50" H x 8.80" L x 5.90" W ( 0.75 lbs) 220 pages
BISAC Categories:
Literary Criticism | European | Italian | Philosophy | Movements | Existentialism | History and Surveys | Modern | Political
Series: Italian Modernities
Description: The law that abolished mental asylums in Italy in 1978 was nicknamed the 'Basaglia Law', after the physician whose work had revolutionised psychiatry in Italy and worldwide: Franco Basaglia (1924-1980). This book shows that his work is still powerful and relevant to contemporary debates about biopolitics.