Since the earliest medical, philosophical, and literary texts in ancient civilizations, madness has posed some basic issues: how to separate sanity from insanit

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Have you ever thought that there might be something wrong with human beings, even that we might be slightly insane? Why is it that so many human beings are fill

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyda