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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

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Full Title:

Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

Contributors:

By (Author) Erving Goffman

ISBN:

9780241548004

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:

Penguin Classics

Publication Date:

20th September 2022

UK Publication Date:

5th May 2022

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Mental health services

Dewey:

362.21

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

352

Dimensions:

Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm

Weight:

262g

Description

New to Penguin Modern Classics, one of most influential social scientist of the twentieth century examines the meaning of the asylum, the 'total institution' Asylums presents four interlinked essays that explore life in the 'total institutions'- the closed systems of prisons, boarding schools, nursing homes and, most importantly, mental institutions. Focusing on the relationship between an inmate and the institution that contains them, Goffman unpicks how lives are managed 'on the inside', and how the setting more often than not works against the inmate's best interests. A radical exploration of the institutions that rule over the lives of men, women and children, Asylums is one of Erving Goffman's most insightful and long-lived works.

Author Bio

Erving Goffman (1922-1982) was one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century. He was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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