Asylums
Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
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- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
18 October 1961
Summary
Asylums is an analysis of life in “total institutions” – closed worlds such as prisons, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, monasteries, nursing homes and mental hospitals – where the inmates are regimented, surrounded by other inmates, and unable to leave the premises. It describes what these institutions make of the inmate, and what he or she can make of life inside them.
Special attention is focused on mental hospitals, drawing on the author’s year of field work a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385000161 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0385000162 |
| Author: | Erving Goffman |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 18 October 1961 |
| Weight: | 335g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 133mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Erving Goffman
Erving Goffman was born in Canada in 1922. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1945 and then studied at the University of Chicago, receiving his M.A. in 1949 and his Ph.D. in 1953. For a year he lived on one of the smaller of the Shetland Isles while he gathered material for a dissertation on that community, and later he served as a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington. Mr. Goffman is the author of several articles and book reviews which have appeared in such periodicals as Psychiatry and the American Journal of Sociology. He is also the author of, among other works, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, Interaction Ritual, and Stigma.
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