Rewriting the history of madness : studies in Foucault's Histoire de la folie / edited by Arthur Still and Irving Velody.

London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.

ix, 225 pages ; 25 cm

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Dillons

Histoire de la folie : an unknown book by Michel Foucault / Colin Gordon -- Foucault and the psychiatric practitioner / Peter Barham -- Madness, medicine, and the state / Paul Bové -- The two readings of Histoire de la folie in France / Robert Castel -- 'The lively sensibility of the Frenchman' : some reflections on the place of France in Foucault's Histoire de la folie / Jan Goldstein -- Foucault, history and madness / Dominick LaCapra -- Foucault, ambiguity and the rhetoric of historiography / Allan Megill -- Reading and believing : on the reappraisal of Michel Foucault / H.C. Erik Midelfort -- Misunderstanding Foucault / Geoffrey Pearson -- Foucault's great confinement / Roy Porter -- Foucault, rhetoric and translation : figures of madness / Anthony Pugh -- Of madness itself : Histoire de la folie and the object of psychiatric history / Nikolas Rose

A failure to communicate? : on the reception of Foucault's Histoire de la folie by Anglo-American historians / Andrew Scull -- Rewriting the history of misreading / Colin Gordon -- Michel Foucault's Madness and civilization : a selective bibliography with critical notations / Mark Erickson.

Includes bibliographic references and indexes