Houses of Madness: Insanity and Asylums of Bengal in Nineteenth Century India
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
0199458871, 9780199458875
Length
304p.,
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Houses of Madness is an intriguing analysis of the history of mental asylums in nineteenth-century Bengal. It explores these institutions through several phases of their development, which not only involved changes in medical treatment and its interpretation of the mentally challenged, but also in the social composition of and the spatial distribution within mental institutions. By also locating the asylums both socially and geographically, it explains how mental ...
