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Book

Madness and civilization : a history of insanity in the Age of Reason

Call Number

  • 362.2 F762 (CEN)

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Edition

Vintage Books ed.

Publication Information

New York : Vintage Books 1988, c1965.

Physical Description

xiii, 299 p. ; 21 cm.

Notes

Translation of Folie et déraison; histoire de la folie.

Contents

  • "Stultifera Navis"
  • The great confinement
  • The insane
  • Passion and delirium
  • Aspects of madness
  • Doctors and patients
  • The great fear
  • The new division
  • The birth of the asylum
  • Conclusion.

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