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Reason and Madness: 1500-1700 CE


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Madness in the Early Modern Era and Enlightenment.


Book Recommendations:

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici


Bibliography: 

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. New York: Autonomedia, 2004.

Midelfort, H. C. Erik. A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany. Nachdr. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Peterson, Dale, ed. A Mad People’s History of Madness. Contemporary Community Health Series. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982.

Pietikäinen, Petteri. Madness: A History. London: Routledge, 2015.

Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History. Nachdr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2010.

Scull, Andrew. Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2015.


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