Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of ReasonMichel 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. |
Contents
| 3 | |
The Great C onflnement | 38 |
The Insane | 65 |
Passion and Delirium | 87 |
Aspects of Madness I 17 | 119 |
Doctors and Patients | 161 |
The Great Fear | 201 |
The New Division 22 I | 231 |
The Birth of the Asylum | 241 |
Conclusion | 279 |
N ates | 291 |
Other editions - View all
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Michel Foucault Limited preview - 1988 |
Common terms and phrases
agitation appears asylum become Bicétre body brain cause Charité classical period confined constitutes contrary cure death defined definition delirium disease disorder doubtless dream effect eighteenth century Encyclopédie entire evil experience of madness fact fear fibers fifteenth century figures finally find first fixed fluids Folly frenzy hallucinations Hieronymus Bosch Hopital Général hospital houses of confinement human humors hypochondria hysteria ical ideas illusion imagination immediate insane labor language lazar houses leprosy lettres de cachet liberty linked longer madman man’s mania manifest meaning melan melancholia melancholic ment mind moral movement nature nerves nervous ness night non-being observation organized paradox Paris passion patient Philippe Pinel physician Pinel poverty prisoners punishment qualities reason relation religion Renaissance rigor Samuel Tuke scandal secret sensibility seventeenth century Ship of Fools significance social soul strange sufferer symbolic symptoms theme therapeutics things tion transgression truth Tuke tury unity unreason vapors violence