Madness : the invention of an idea / Michel Foucault ; translated by Alan Sheridan.

  • Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Date:
2011
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About this work

Also known as

Maladie mentale et psychologie. English

Publication/Creation

New York ; London : Harper Perennial, 2011.

Physical description

146 pages ; 18 cm.

Notes

"This work was first published in French under the title Maladie Mentale et Personalité ... Revised and republished as Maladie Mentale et Psychologie."--T.p. verso.
English translation originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1976.

Contents

Mental medicine and organic medicine -- I: The psychological dimensions of mental illness -- Mental illness and evolution -- Mental illness and individual history -- Mental illness and existence -- II: Madness and culture -- The historical constitution of mental illness -- Madness: an overall structure.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 9780062007186
  • 0062007181