TY - BOOK AU - Foucault,Michel ED - Askews & Holts TI - Madness and Civilization T2 - Routledge Classics SN - 9780203164693 (e-book) PY - 2003/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Sociology KW - thema KW - Electronic books KW - lcsh N1 - Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web N2 - In recent years the question of madness and how to define it has become the centre of a great deal of discussion. This is the question the distinguished French psychologist and philosopher Michel Foucault seeks to answer 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 UR - http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=BradfordC&isbn=9780203164693 ER -