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

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

Erving Goffman

352 pages paperback 1961

15 editions

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 One of most influential social scientist of the twentieth century examines the meaning of the asylum'Psychiatric staff share with policemen the peculiar occupational task of hectoring and moralizing adults'This groundbreaking work of social scien...

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