To familiarize with the field of medical history, critical competence on its intellectual vocabulary and a first introduction to its worldwide literature; to develop strategies for the interpretation of sources via this mode of enquiry.
Contents: Michel Fouclault and medical history; madness and psychiatry.
Texts:
Michel Foucault, Storia della follia nell’età classica, Milano, Rizzoli, 2011 (first edn 1963);
Michel Foucault, Follia e psichiatria. Detti e scritti 1957-1984, a cura di Mauro Bertani e Pier Aldo Rovatti, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2006;
Michel Foucault, Il potere psichiatrico. Corso al Collège de France (1973-1974), Milano, Feltrinelli, 2015.
Further reading, suggested during the course, will not be added to exam requirements.
Teaching methods: lectures plus seminar-like meetings.
Oral interview.
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