Asylums

Why read it

• You will recognize a total institution: a place where people live and work cut off from wider society
• You will see how people under tight control still find small ways to get by
• You will learn how a patient's role is shaped by the organization around them, not only by illness

Who it is for

• People who run or work in care settings
• Students of sociology or psychology
• Anyone curious how institutions shape the people inside them

Contents

1. Introduction to the Aldinetransaction Edition
2. Preface
3. Introduction
4. 1 On The Characteristics of Total Institutions¹
5. 2 The Moral Career of the Mental Patient
6. 3 The Underlife of a Public Institution¹
7. 4 The Medical Model and Mental Hospitalization¹

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