Madness and Civilization
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What’s it about?
A history of how Western society has defined, confined, and silenced the mad, revealing the shifting line between reason and unreason.
You’ll learn
- Madness is a social construct, not a fixed condition
- The Great Confinement locked away the idle, not the sick
- Psychiatry is a moral enterprise disguised as science
- The mad have been silenced throughout history