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Structures of Custodial Care: Anthropological Study of a State Mental Hospital
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Binding: Softcover
ISBN-13: 9780520090590
ISBN: 0520090594
Description: Reader copy. ( University of California Press 1962, Paperback. ) In this fascinating work of social and cultural anthropology, Salisbury explores the social structures, power relations and interactions in a US State Mental Hospital in the middle of the 20th century. It is a unique account of this relatively self-contained 'community' from which few of the patients returned to the world outside. As Salisbury explains: The behaviour of all categories of people, staff and patients alike, are ...  read more
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