Madness: a history

A social history of madness: stories of the insane

admits on p. 4) with other countries or even with other Dutch towns; only in the vaguest and most superficial way is there any attempt to locate the development ofthe Coolsingel Hospital to a general trend in the country or in Europe. There is no attempt to contribute to any theoretical ideas in the social history of medicine, and the whole makes an impression of a vast antiquarian study conduc...

A history of madness in sixteenth-century Germany

At a time when historians seem all too often to have lost confidence in their craft and turned to other branches of knowledge for inspiration, Erik Midelfort has written a very historical book. A history of madness in sixteenth-century Germany brilliantly demonstrates how much an accomplished historian can achieve. While Midelfort is by no means oblivious to the insights other disciplines offer...

Rewriting the history of madness: studies in Foucault's

examinations in Padua and elsewhere. The German universities followed slavishly their Italian models. Eberhard Knab, active in Heidelberg from 1451 to 1480, was not alone in leaving memorials of his teaching in the form of Quaestiones (see the Verfasserlexikon, s.n.), and the orations delivered by Melanchthon's pupils in the Wittenberg of the 1540s and 1550s, printed among his collected works, ...

Madness

here are clouds in the painting, of course. Almost any one of us would have included those clouds, thick with electricity and rainwater. And there is the wheat field, smudged out like an empty palm, orange beneath the storm-stricken sun. Surely, many of us would have insisted on the wheat as well. Through the middle of the wheat, a rutted road slices to the horizon and disappears beneath the cl...

A Question of Madness