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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (French: Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique, 1961) [i] is an examination by Michel Foucault of the evolution of the meaning of madness in the cultures and laws, politics, philosophy, and medicine of Europe—from the Middle Ages until the end of the 18th century—and a critique of the idea of ...
The book Insanity in Ancient and Modern Life (1878), followed by The History of the Insane in the British Isles (1882) count as some of his most influential works. [38] In 1884, during his visit in America, he also collected material for his book The Insane in the United States and Canada.
Insanity can manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person or persons becoming a danger to themselves or to other people. Conceptually, mental insanity also is associated with the biological phenomenon of contagion (that mental illness is infectious) as in the case of copycat suicides .
The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital . Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.
Image credits: anon #9. I thought all parents were on their best behavior and pretending to be good people in public and that when they got home they were all angry and violent.
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (996–1021), called the Mad Caliph in Western literature; Odo I, Count of Vermandois, Count of Vermanois from 1080 to 1085, called "the Insane" George III (1738–1820), King of Great Britain and of Ireland, called the Mad King; Mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845–1886)
The Microsoft co-founder didn't take it personally as Musk is "super mean to so many people." Elon Musk called Bill Gates ‘categorically insane’ and ‘an a*****e to the core’ after he ...
Hart wrote the 1999 follow-up A View from the Year 3000, [33] voiced in the perspective of a person from that future year and ranking the most influential people in history. Roughly half the entries are fictional people from 2000 to 3000, but the remainder are taken mostly from the 1992 ranking, with some sequence changes. [34] [35]