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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates » (Reprint)
Authors: Erving Goffman
ISBN-13: 9780385000161, ISBN-10: 0385000162
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: October 1961
Edition: Reprint
Author Biography: Erving Goffman
Book Synopsis
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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