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Annotation Goldstein spans the enlightened absolutist experiments of the 1780s through the end of the 19th century. Combining the approaches of intellectual, social, and political history to present psychiatry as a body of scientific knowledge, a new profession formed within the relatively fluid class society created by the Revolution, and a manifestation of the bureaucratic state. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).