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Asylums (Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates) (Reprint) (Paperback)
- Author: Erving Goffman
- Publisher: Doubleday
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Drawing on a year of field work at St. Elizabeth's in Washington , D.C., Asylums is an analyssis of life in "total institutions"--closed worlds such as prisons, mental-hospitals, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, monasteries, and nursing homes--where the inmates are regimented, surrounded by other inmates, and unable to leave the premises. It is the thesis of this book that the most important factor in forming mental-hospital patient is the institution, not the illness.
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- Genre: Psychology
- Subgenre: Social Psychology
- Date Published: July 01, 1990
- Release Date: July 01, 1990
- Publisher: Doubleday
- Author: Erving Goffman
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
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- DPCI: 248-02-6826
- ASIN: B002L054NU
- Catalog #: 11452824
- ISBN: 9780385000161
- Item can be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 8 inches length x 5 inches width x 0.75 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.80 pound.
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