# Asylums

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- Book: [Asylums](https://www.bookquiver.com/erving-goffman/asylums) ([Asylums.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/erving-goffman/asylums.md))
- Authors: [Erving Goffman](https://www.bookquiver.com/erving-goffman)
- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-03-8500-016-1
- Pages: 400
- Published: 1961-10-18
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...