Madness and Civilization

Abstract

In recent years the question of madness and how to define it has become the centre of a great deal of discussion. This is the question the distinguished French psychologist and philosopher Michel Foucault seeks to answer by studying madness from 1500 to 1800 - from the Middle Ages when insanity was considered part of everyday life and fools and madmen walked the streets, to the point when these people began to be considered a threat, asylums were built for the first time, and a wall was erected between the insane and the rest of humanity.

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Michel Foucault (2003). Madness and Civilization. Routledge eBooks. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203164693

@book{michel2003madness,
  title  = {Madness and Civilization},
  author = {Foucault, Michel},
  year   = {2003},
  publisher = {Routledge eBooks},
  doi    = {10.4324/9780203164693}
}

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