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Asylums : essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates

By: Goffman, Erving.
Publisher: New Delhi : Penguin Books, 1991Description: 336 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780140137392.Subject(s): Psychiatric hospitals | Sociological aspects | Mentally ill | Institutionalization | Sociology | Asylums | Total Institution,theory | Social role | Institionalising | Medicalization | Industrial Revolution | Medical model | Prisons | Army training Camps | Naval vessels | Boarding schools | Monastaries | Nursing HomesDDC classification: 362.21 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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Includes bibliography.

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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