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  2. Madness and Civilization - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Insanity - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. Insanity in Ancient and Modern Life - Wikipedia

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    Around the same time, he published one of his most influential books, Illustrations of the Influence of the Mind Upon the Body in Health and Disease (1872). [37] 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]

  5. List of people known as the Mad - Wikipedia

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    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)

  6. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

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    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]

  7. William James Sidis - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 February 2025. American child prodigy (1898–1944) William James Sidis Sidis at his Harvard graduation (1914) Born (1898-04-01) April 1, 1898 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Died July 17, 1944 (1944-07-17) (aged 46) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Other names John W. Shattuck Frank Folupa Parker Greene Jacob ...

  8. Lunatic asylum - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. List of topics characterized as pseudoscience - Wikipedia

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    Christian Science is generally considered a Christian new religious movement; however, some have called it "pseudoscience" because its founder, Mary Baker Eddy, used "science" in its name, and because of its former stance against medical science. Also, "Eddy used the term Metaphysical science to distinguish her system both from materialistic ...