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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

By Michel Foucault

Book information

Publisher
Vintage Books
Year
1988
ISBN
978-0-307-83310-5, 0307833100
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2015042 bytes)
Pages
299\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Psychiatry -- History. Mental illness. Psychiatrie

Description

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 — from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.

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