See:
About the concept of the ?dangerous individual? in
nineteenth century legal psychiatry. International
Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 1: 1-18 (1979).
'A history of insanity in the classical age' also
contains a chapter on deviancy previously omitted from
'madness and civilization'.
Furthermore, I would recommend 'the birth of the
clinic' (in relation to the mutual dependency of the
mutually exclusive concepts of 'health' and
'normality', on the one hand, and 'disease' and
'pathology', on the other).
If you would like to cast your net more broadly- and
extend it beyond the range of Foucaults oevour- let me
know and I will hunt down some references for material
which looks at the types and forms of connexions which
may be legitimately established between health and
pathology (but i would simply orientate you towards
primary histiographical material in the 'domains' of
medicine and justice where these two concepts play a
determining role, particually at the points where
these two fields of thought and action intersect).
--- Mark Kelly <mgekelly@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Yvonne,
>
> I think Abnormal is the best thing to use for this,
> a very accessible
> text for beginners to Foucault (maybe even the most
> accessible . . .)
> My reccommendation for further reading would be
> Georges Canguilhem's
> The Normal and the Pathological. Regardless of
> whether you look at
> Canguilhem, I think it's very important to
> understand that this is
> directly where Foucault gets these themes from, and
> that he didn't
> discover them himself, but merely expanded on or
> reinscribed them.
>
> Best,
> Mark
>
> On 6/25/05, Yvonne Liu <yl90@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My name is Yvonne Liu and I'm a PhD student in
> sociology at the CUNY
> > Graduate Center in New York. I've encountered
> Foucault in my
> > contemporary theory class, where we read "The
> Order of Things" and a
> > media studies course on the regime of vision and
> the privileging of
> > the observer. I'm teaching an undergraduate class
> in the fall at
> > City College in Harlem on deviance, where I'd like
> to use Foucault's
> > history of what constitutes "normal" and
> "pathological." So far, I'm
> > using his lectures on the "Abnormal" from 1974 -
> 75 and "Discipline
> > and Punishment." I would love any other
> suggestions on readings.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Yvonne Liu
> > YL90@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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