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Houses of madness : insanity and asylums of Bengal in nineteenth-century India / Debjani Das.
Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199085484 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Psychiatric hospitals -- India -- History -- 19th century | Psychiatric hospital care -- India -- History -- 19th century | Mentally ill -- Institutional care -- India -- History -- 19th century | India -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Additional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199458875DDC classification: 362.21095409034 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: '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.
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
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).