Madness and Civilization : : a History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
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Translation of Folie et déraison; histoire de la folie.
"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.
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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PUBLISHED
New York : Vintage Books, 1988, c1965.
Year Published: 1965
Description: xiii, 299 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
067972110X
9780679721109
SUBJECTS
Psychiatry -- History.
Mental illness.