Erving Goffman's Asylums 50 years on

Erving Goffman's Asylums 50 years on.

Erving Goffman's Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates is a key text in the sociology of mental illness. It is sometimes seen simplistically as a paradigm of'antipsychiatry', and as a key step in the triumph of community psychiatry over narrower, medical models of mental illness. Reading Asylums today, however, reveals that this portrayal does not capture ...

Erving Goffman's asylums and institutional culture in the mid-twentieth-century United States.

Sociologist Erving Goffman based his seminal work Asylums (1961) on a year of field research at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC. Goffman described the mental hospital as a "total institution," in which regimentation dominated every aspect of daily life and patients were denied even the most basic means of self-expression; rather than promote recovery, such conditions produced the sort...

Inclusive fitness: 50 years on.

One contribution of 14 to a Theme Issue 'Inclusive fitness: 50 years on'.

Interstellar Grains: 50 Years On

Our understanding of the nature of interstellar grains has evolved considerably over the past half century with the present author and Fred Hoyle being intimately involved at several key stages of progress. The currently fashionable graphite-silicate-organic grain model has all its essential aspects unequivocally traceable to original peer-reviewed publications by the author and/or Fred Hoyle. ...

The Soviet "Doctors' Plot"-50 years on.