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

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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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