Introduction, Arthur Still, Irving Velody; Part 1 Reading Foucault; Chapter 1 Histoire de la folie, Colin Gordon; Part 2 Responses; Chapter 2 Foucault and the psychiatric practitioner, Peter Barham; Chapter 3 Madness, medicine and the state, Paul Bové; Chapter 4 The two readings of Histoire de la folie in France, Robert Castel; Chapter 5 ‘The lively sensibility of the Frenchman’, Jan Goldstein; Chapter 6 Foucault, history and madness, Dominick LaCapra; Chapter 7 Foucault, ambiguity and the rhetoric of historiography, Allan Megill; Chapter 8 Reading and believing, H. C. Erik Midelfort; Chapter 9 Misunderstanding Foucault, Geoffrey Pearson; Chapter 10 Foucault’s great confinement, Roy Porter; Chapter 11 Foucault, rhetoric and translation, Anthony Pugh; Chapter 12 Of madness itself, Nikolas Rose; Chapter 13 A failure to communicate?, Andrew Scull; Part 3 Review; Chapter 14 Rewriting the history of misreading, Colin Gordon; Chapter 15 Michel Foucault’s Madness and Civilization, Mark Erickson;