# Madness and Civilization

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- Book: [Madness and Civilization](https://www.bookquiver.com/michel-foucault/madness-and-civilization) ([Madness and Civilization.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/michel-foucault/madness-and-civilization.md))
- Authors: [Michel Foucault](https://www.bookquiver.com/michel-foucault)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-110-9
- Pages: 320
- Published: 1988-11-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Michel Foucault's most admired book is an incisive history of changing attitudes toward mental illness of Western Europe between 1500 and 1800. Madness and Civilization investigates the archeology of...