Perspectives on Erving Goffman's "Asylums" fifty years on.
Med Health Care Philos
; 16(3): 605-13, 2013 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
Erving Goffman's "Asylums" is a key text in the development of contemporary, community-orientated mental health practice. It has survived as a trenchant critique of the asylum as total institution, and its publication in 1961 in book form marked a further stage in the discrediting of the asylum model of mental health care. In this paper, some responses from a range of disciplines to this text, 50 years on, are presented. A consultant psychiatrist with a special interest in cultural psychiatry and mental health legislation, two collaborating psychotherapists in adult and forensic mental health, a philosopher, and a recent medical graduate, present their varying responses to the text. The editors present these with the hope of encouraging further dialogue and debate from service users, carers, clinicians, and academics and researchers across a range of disciplines.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Hospitales Psiquiátricos
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Med Health Care Philos
Asunto de la revista:
ETICA
Año:
2013
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Reino Unido