Asylums : essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates created by Erving Goffman

By:

Goffman, Erving [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publication details: Middlesex Penguin Books 1961Description: 336 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0140210075

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Contents:

Introduction, On the characteristics of total institutions, The moral career of the mental patient, The underlife of a public institution, The medical model and mental hospitalization.

Summary: 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 the person and how the person can deal with life on the inside.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Book	Main Library Open Shelf	RC439 GOF (Browse shelf(Opens below))	149169	Available	BK135369
Book	School of Social Work Library Open Shelf	RC439 GOF (Browse shelf(Opens below))	155898	Available	BK142344
Book	School of Social Work Library Open Shelf	RC439 GOF (Browse shelf(Opens below))	151978	Available	BK138867
Book	School of Social Work Library Open Shelf	RC439 GOF (Browse shelf(Opens below))	135606	Available	BK115508

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Introduction, On the characteristics of total institutions, The moral career of the mental patient, The underlife of a public institution, The medical model and mental hospitalization.

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 the person and how the person can deal with life on the inside.

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