TY - BOOK AU - Michel Foucault TI - Madness and civilization: : a history of insanity in the age of reason SN - 9780679721109 U1 - 132.1 M58211 M PY - 1988/// CY - usa PB - RHUS N1 - 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 everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity ER -