1st Edition
Asylums Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
408 Pages
by
Routledge
408 Pages
by
Routledge
408 Pages
by
Routledge
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A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life. Prisons serve as a clear example, providing we appreciate that what is prison-like about prisons is found in institutions whose members have... Read more
On The Characteristics of Total Institutions 1; The Moral Career of the Mental Patient; The Underlife of a Public Institution 1; The Medical Model and Mental Hospitalization 1
Biography
Goffman, Erving
