HOUSES OF MADNESS

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Author: DEBJANI DAS
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 9780199458875
Publishing year: 2015-09-28 05:30:00.000
No of pages: 304
Weight: 492g
Language: English
Book binding: Hardback

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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