Houses of madness : insanity and asylums of Bengal in nineteenth-century India
Das, DebjaniAuthor
'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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'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.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 17, 2015).
Bengal (India). Civil Medical Department
Psychiatric hospitals
Insanity (Law)
Public health
Psychiatry - General
Psychiatry
Health & Biological Sciences