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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
By (Author) Erving Goffman
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
20th September 2022
5th May 2022
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Mental health services
362.21
Paperback
352
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm
262g
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.
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.