Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by Erving Goffman, William B. Helmreich

Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

Erving Goffman, William B. Helmreich

336 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

nonfiction psychology sociology informative slow-paced
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Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions" -- closed worlds such as prisons, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, monastaries, nursing homes and mental hospitals -- where the inmates are regimented, surrounded by other...

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