Ideas on Institutions - Analysing the Literature on Long-Term Care and Custody

First published in 1984, Ideas on Institution is a review of the major English-language literature of the past two decades on the experience of living in institutions - hospitals, mental hospitals, prisons.

List of contents

Prologue Introduction 1. Goffman: the radical 2. Foucault: the excavator 3. Szasz: the iconoclast 4. Russell Barton: the medical interpreter 5. Townsend: the reformer 6. The Morrises: building on theory 7. AEGIS: the disappearing pressure group 8. Rothman: the puzzled historian 9. Kittrie: the advocate 10. Cohen and Taylor: the infiltrators 11. Haney, Banks and Zimbardo: the experimentalists 12. King and Elliott: the analysts of failure Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

About the author

Kathleen Jones and A. J. Fowles

Summary

First published in 1984, Ideas on Institution is a review of the major English-language literature of the past two decades on the experience of living in institutions - hospitals, mental hospitals, prisons.

Product details

• Authors: A J Fowles, Kathleen Jones, Kathleen Fowles Jones
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2023
• EAN: 9781032521626
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3252162-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social welfare & social services, Social welfare and social services, Disability: social aspects, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Criminal justice law