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<address><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/61103/asylums-by-erving-goffman/">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/61103/asylums-by-erving-goffman/</a><br>
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<address><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylums_(book)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylums_(book)</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_institution">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_institution</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.2307/2090043">https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.2307/2090043</a><br>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Summary">Summary</span></h2>
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Based on his participant observation <span class="mw-redirect">field
work</span> (he was employed as a physical therapist's assistant
under a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health at a <span
class="mw-redirect">mental institution</span> in Washington,
D.C.), Goffman details his theory of the "total institution"
(principally in the example he gives, as the title of the book
indicates, mental institutions) and the process by which it takes
efforts to maintain predictable and regular behavior on the part
of both "guard" and "captor," suggesting that many of the features
of such institutions serve the ritual function of ensuring that
both classes of people know their function and <span
class="mw-redirect">social role</span>, in other words of "institutionalising"
them. Goffman concludes that adjusting the inmates to their role
has at least as much importance as "curing" them. In the essay
"Notes on the Tinkering Trades," Goffman concluded that the "medicalization"
of mental illness and the various treatment modalities are
offshoots of the 19th century and the Industrial Revolution and
that the so-called "medical model" for treating patients was a
variation on the way trades- and craftsmen of the late 19th
century repaired clocks and other mechanical objects: in the
confines of a shop or store, contents and routine of which
remained a mystery to the customer.<br>
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