Author: Debjani Das (Professor of history)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199458875
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'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.