Asylums : essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates.

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Author / Creator:Goffman, Erving.
Imprint:Chicago : Aldine Pub. Co., [1962,c1961]
Description:386 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:An Aldine library edition.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/709089
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ISBN:0202300005
9780202300009
Notes:Includes bibliography
Also issued online.
Other form:Online version: Goffman, Erving. Asylums. Chicago, Aldine Pub. Co. [1962,c1961]
Table of Contents:
  • On the characteristics of total institutions
  • The moral career of the mental patient
  • The underlife of a public institution : a study of ways of making out in a mental hospital
  • The medical model and mental hospitalization : some notes on the vicissitudes of the tinkering trades.