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Madness and civilization : a history of insanity in the Age of Reason / Michel Foucault ; translated from the French by Richard Howard.

By: Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1988. Description: xiii, 299 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 067972110X (pbk.); 9780679721109 (pbk.)Uniform titles: Folie et déraison. English Subject(s): Psychiatry -- History | Mental illness | Psychiatry -- History -- 1500-1800 | Mental illness -- History -- 1500-1800Genre/Form: History. Additional physical formats: Online version:: Madness and civilization.LOC classification: RC438 | .F613 1988Summary: Traces the literary, philosophical, and moral themes of madness as well as its social and theological impact in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.
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Translation of: Folie et déraison; histoire de la folie.

Includes bibliographical references.

Traces the literary, philosophical, and moral themes of madness as well as its social and theological impact in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.

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