David Mccallum

Personality and Dangerousness

Genealogies of Antisocial Personality Disorder

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Personality and Dangerousness, first published in 2001, traces the history of the category of antisocial personality disorder.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780521008754
• ISBN-10: 0521008751
• Artikelnr.: 29337278

Autorenporträt

David McCallum is Associate Professor in Sociology at Victoria University in Melbourne. He is the author of The Social Productions of Merit (1990) and numerous chapters and articles on the history of human sciences and government.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Law, psychiatry and the problem of disorder
2. Histories of psychiatry and the asylum
3. The borderland patient
4. Counting, eugenics, mental hygiene
5. The space for personality
6. Surfaces of emergence
7. Personality and dangerousness.