TY  - BOOK
AU  - Das,Debjani
TI  - Houses of madness: insanity and asylums of Bengal in nineteenth-century India 
SN  - 9780199085484 (ebook) :
AV  - RC439 
U1  - 362.21095409034 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Psychiatric hospitals
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Psychiatric hospital care
KW  - Mentally ill
KW  - Institutional care
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - '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
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199458875.001.0001
ER  -