Describe the history of mental hospitals and institutionalization. Include a discussion of the contributions of Goffman and Rosenhan.

What will be an ideal response?


The ideal answer should include:
1. Late nineteenth and early twentieth century: care for patients with mental illness usually involved mental hospitals.
2. Goffman regarded the mental hospital as a total institution.
3. Rosenhan's research illustrates the conditions prevailing in many mental hospital using pseudopatients, but staff thought of them as mentally ill.

Sociology

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