Asylums by Erving Goffman

Asylums

Erving Goffman

352 pages first pub 1961 (editions)

nonfiction psychology sociology
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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 i...

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