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Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
Erschienen in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 3/2013

01.08.2013 | Short Communication

Perspectives on Erving Goffman’s “Asylums” fifty years on

verfasst von: John Adlam, Irwin Gill, Shane N. Glackin, Brendan D. Kelly, Christopher Scanlon, Seamus Mac Suibhne

Erschienen in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy | Ausgabe 3/2013

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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.
Fußnoten
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Goffman (1961), p. 7.
 
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Goffman (1961), p. 330.
 
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Carel (2008), p. 73.
 
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Carel (2008), p. 44.
 
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Goffman (1961), p. 73.
 
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I thank an anonymous reviewer for pressing this point.
 
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Chodoff (1984) remains an authoritative summary of the issues and positions in the debate.
 
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Goffman (1961), p. 130.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Perspectives on Erving Goffman’s “Asylums” fifty years on
verfasst von
John Adlam
Irwin Gill
Shane N. Glackin
Brendan D. Kelly
Christopher Scanlon
Seamus Mac Suibhne
Publikationsdatum
01.08.2013
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy / Ausgabe 3/2013
Print ISSN: 1386-7423
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-8633
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-012-9410-z

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