History of psychiatry in Bengal

The history of psychiatry in Bengal mirrors the history of psychiatry in India. With Bengal being an important location for the East India Company, it became the locus for much infrastructure development, including the setting up of lunatic asylums. This article traces the development of psychiatric...

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Autores principales: Bandyopadhyay, Gautam Kumar, Ghoshal, Malay, Saha, Gautam, Singh, Om Prakash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Historical Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5836337/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29527047
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.224323
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spelling pubmed-58363372018-03-09 History of psychiatry in Bengal Bandyopadhyay, Gautam Kumar Ghoshal, Malay Saha, Gautam Singh, Om Prakash Indian J Psychiatry Historical Review The history of psychiatry in Bengal mirrors the history of psychiatry in India. With Bengal being an important location for the East India Company, it became the locus for much infrastructure development, including the setting up of lunatic asylums. This article traces the development of psychiatric care in Bengal, from the early time of private asylums exclusively for Europeans, to psychiatric care in the present time. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5836337/ /pubmed/29527047 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.224323 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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