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In "Madness and Civilization" Michel Foucault cites an alleged practice where individuals with cognitive disabilities were loaded on to ships and shuffled around various ports in Renaissance Europe before the medicalization of mental conditions. Is there any verifiable historical basis for this?

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In "Madness and Civilization" Michel Foucault cites an alleged practice where individuals with cognitive abnormalities were loaded on to ships and shuffled around various ports in Renaissance Europe before the medicalization of mental conditions. Is there any verifiable historical basis for this?

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In "Madness and Civilization" Michel Foucault cites an alleged practice where individuals with cognitive disabilities were loaded on to ships and shuffled around various ports in Renaissance Europe before the medicalization of mental conditions. Is there any verifiable historical basis for this?	141
In "Madness and Civilization" Michel Foucault cites an alleged practice where individuals with cognitive abnormalities were loaded on to ships and shuffled around various ports in Renaissance Europe before the medicalization of mental conditions. Is there any verifiable historical basis for this?	6