Foucault, Michel <br/><br/>
Madness and civilization: a history of insanity in the age of reason 
Foucault, Michel 
 - New York  Vintage Books  1988 
 - xiii, 299 p. 
<br/><br/> Foucault discusses the question of madness and how to define it by studying madness from 1500 to 1800--from the Middle Ages when insanity was considered part of everyday life and fools and madmen walked the streets, to the point when these people began to be considered a threat, asylums were built for the first time, and a wall was erected between the insane and the rest of humanity.    
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780679721109 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mental illness - History<br/>Psychiatry - History
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>155.7  / F6M2