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The Invention of Madness
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Emily Baum
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-02 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the
Madness and Civilization
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Michel Foucault
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-30 - Publisher: Vintage

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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 everyda
History of Madness
Language: en
Pages: 775
Authors: Michel Foucault
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02 - Publisher: Routledge

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This translation of The History of Madness in the Classical Age is the first English edition of the original, complete French text and includes important materi
A Mad People’s History of Madness
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Dale Peterson
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982-03-15 - Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

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A man desperately tries to keep his pact with the Devil, a woman is imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband because of religious differences, and, on the
Madness in Civilization
Language: en
Pages: 12
Authors: Andrew Scull
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-06 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.
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