Madness and civilization: a history of insanity in the age of reason / Michel foucUT

By:

Faucault, Michel

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Vintage Books, 1988. New York:Description: xiii, 299 pISBN:

9780679721109

Subject(s):

Psychiatry --History

DDC classification:

157.209 FOU-M

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB D-1	Non Fiction	157.209 FOU-M (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		004663

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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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