Du fou social au fou médical. Genèse parlementaire de la loi du 30 juin 1838 sur les aliénés
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6185286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gilles Landron (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-21 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Déviance et Société (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0378-7931 • E-ISSN: 2296-4096 |
| Publisher | PERSEE Program (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3406/ds.1995.1559 |
| OpenAlex | W2061217134 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 2 |
The movement towards the recognition of the insane as «sick» started as early as the French Revolution, but it was not until the July Monarchy that a real debate was held in Parliament, which eventually led to the law passed on June 30th 1838. The succession of bills and the main topics of discussion in the Houses of Parliament reveal the political and technical choices involved: the first bill was concerned mainly with social order and the control of deviance, but later ones introduce the idea of the protection of individual freedom. Far from the traditional political rifts, the debates concerning the nature of the future institutions - whether public or private, specialised or not - were strongly influenced by the great alienists of the time, backed by liberal philanthropists. The idea of the insane as a sick man in need of medical care is foremost in the law of 1838. This law, fruit of a compromise, can be considered in the legislative field as the birth certificate of modern psychiatry
Compromise · Humanities · Legislature · Monarchy · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Health, Medicine and Society · Historical and Scientific Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |