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Erving Goffman’s (1961) collection of essays, Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates, is one of sociology’s classics. It has probably been read by more sociology students than any other single book in the field of mental health. Suffused with the author’s eye for irony, amused skepticism, and gift with the language, the essays examine the nature of “total institutions” such as mental hospitals, the “moral careers” of patients, ways of “making out” in a mental hospital, and the “vicissitudes of the tinkering trades,” as he referred to psychiatry and other mental health professions. Goffman’s objective was “to try to learn about the social world of the hospital inmate, as this world is subjectively experienced by him” (p. ix).
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Kirk, S.A. (1999). Instituting Madness. In: Aneshensel, C.S., Phelan, J.C. (eds) Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-36223-1_26
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