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This translation is of the edition abridged by the author and published in the Plon 10/18 series. However, the author has added some additional material from the original edition, including the chapter "Passion and Delirium."
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Foucault, Michel. _Madness and Civilization:A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason_.
Translation of _Folie et deraison; histoire de la folie._
Old abridged edition. Trans, Richard Howard