Asylums : essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates /
By: Goffman, Erving
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Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Aldine Transaction, c2007Edition: Revised ed.Description: xxii, 386 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780202309712 (alk. paper); 9780202309712:; 0202309711 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Psychiatric hospitals -- Sociological aspects | Mentally illDDC classification: 362.21 Summary: Deals with total institutions in general and, mental hospitals, in particular. This book focuses on the world of the inmate. It includes essays that focus on the same issue - the inmate's situation in an institutional context. Its chapters approach the central issue from different vantage points, drawing upon different sources in sociology.
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Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books, 1961.
Includes bibliographical references.
Deals with total institutions in general and, mental hospitals, in particular. This book focuses on the world of the inmate. It includes essays that focus on the same issue - the inmate's situation in an institutional context. Its chapters approach the central issue from different vantage points, drawing upon different sources in sociology.