Asylums : essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates
Goffman, Erving, 1922-19822022
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'Asylums' presents four interlinked essays that explore life in the 'total institutions': the closed systems of prisons, boarding schools, nursing homes and, most importantly, mental institutions. Focusing on the relationship between an inmate and the institution that contains them, Goffman unpicks how lives are managed 'on the inside', and how the setting more often than not works against the inmate's best interests.
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Author:
Goffman, Erving, 1922-1982, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2022.
Collation:
336 pages ; 20 cm.
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Originally published: Garden City: Anchor, 1961.Includes bibliographical references.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780241548004 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
362.21
Language:
English
BRN:
2252702
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