Asylums essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates. - Goffman, Erving (Garden City, N.Y. Anchor Books, 1961)
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.
Includes bibliography.
Also issued online.
Keywords: Psychiatric hospitals -- Sociological aspects; Mentally ill; Hospitals, Psychiatric