This volume explores the history and historiography of madness from the ancient and medieval worlds to the present day. Covering Africa, Asia and South America

This translation of The History of Madness in the Classical Age is the first English edition of the original, complete French text and includes important materi

This magisterial work explores how Renaissance Germans understood and experienced madness. It focuses on the insanity of the world in general but also on specif

Michel Foucault has had an extraordinary impact on writers in the human sciences since his first book Madness and Civilization appeared in English. This title a

This book presents new perspectives on the multiplicity of voices in the histories of mental ill-health. In the thirty years since Roy Porter called on historia