Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by Erving Goffman, William B. Helmreich

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

Erving Goffman, William B. Helmreich

386 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

nonfiction psychology sociology informative slow-paced
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Asylums 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 setting affects th...

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