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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (1st Edition) by Erving Goffman Paperback, 386 Pages, Published 1961 ISBN-10: 0-385-00016-2 / 0385000162 ISBN-13: 978-0-385-00016-1 / 9780385000161 Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions" -- closed worlds such as prisons, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, monastaries, nursing homes and mental hospitals -- where the inmates are regimented, surrounded by other inmates, and unable to leave the premises. It descri |