1st Edition
Ideas on Institutions analysing the literature on long-term care and custody
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1984, Ideas on Institution is a review of the major English-language literature of the past two decades on the experience of living in institutions - hospitals, mental hospitals, prisons. The survey opens with a consideration of the writings of Erving Goffman, Michael Foucault, and Thomas Szasz. They shattered the liberal consensus that the purpose of imprisonment was to... Read more
Prologue Introduction 1. Goffman: the radical 2. Foucault: the excavator 3. Szasz: the iconoclast 4. Russell Barton: the medical interpreter 5. Townsend: the reformer 6. The Morrises: building on theory 7. AEGIS: the disappearing pressure group 8. Rothman: the puzzled historian 9. Kittrie: the advocate 10. Cohen and Taylor: the infiltrators 11. Haney, Banks and Zimbardo: the experimentalists 12. King and Elliott: the analysts of failure Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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Kathleen Jones and A. J. Fowles
