Goffman, Erving: Asylums

Asylums was published in 1961 by Erving Goffman after he spent 1955–1956 collecting ethnographic field data about the subjective experiences of hospital inmates at St. Elizabeths in Washington, D.C., a federal institution of mental health.

Goffman was a visiting member of the ...

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