Houses of madness : insanity and asylums of Bengal in nineteenth-century India / Debjani Das.

• 'Houses of Madness' is a history of asylums of colonial Bengal in the 19th century. It explores these institutions through several phases that not only involved changes in medical treatment and its interpretation, but also the question of spatial distribution within these institutions. 

Ämnesord

Psychiatric hospitals  -- India -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Psychiatric hospital care  -- India -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Mentally ill  -- Institutional care -- India -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

India  -- Social conditions -- 19th century. (LCSH)

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