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

Author

Michel Foucault

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.