Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

Name: Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
Author: Erving Goffman
ISBN: 9780385000161

by Erving Goffman

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Language EN

Total Pages 386 pages

ISBN: 9780385000161
Published: 1961

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Is an analysis of life in "Total institutions"--closed worlds like prisons, army camps, boarding schools, nursing homes and mental hospitals. It focuses on the relationship between the inmate and the institution, how the...

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