Ebook: The man who thought he was Napoleon: toward a political history of madness

Revolutionary terror, or losing head and mind -- Asylum or political prison? -- The man who thought he was Napoleon -- Morbus democraticus -- Reason in revolt.;By investigating nineteenth-century medical cases and doctors' observations, this book attempts to understand how political events such as revolutions and the rise of new systems of government affect mental health and/or can be represented as delirious in psychiatric and literary discourses. Rather than denouncing wrongful confinements, this book analyzes what is at stake in the intertwined discourses of madness, psychiatry, and political theory.