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To what extent did Lennox Castle fit Goffman’s account of the “total instituition”? From your discussion identify practices that would help to minimise instituitionalisation in care settings today.
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To what extent did Lennox Castle fit Goffman's account of the "total instituition"? From your discussion identify practices that would help to minimise instituitionalisation in care settings today. Following the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act, people with learning disabilities were herded off to "mental hospitals", thus ensuring that the nation would not be burdened by feeble minded and undesirable outcasts whilst also ascertaining that the nation would not be weakened should they interbreed with the population. One such hospital was Lennox Castle Hospital, an admirable architectural structure built in the 1920's and said to be 100 years ahead of its time - highly acclaimed, almost infallible...... but only in theory. Erving Goffman, a sociologist who researched patients in mental hospitals acknowledged that their endurance exceeded more than neglect and lack of resources. He determined that these patients were being systematically dominated and forced into a submissive state and that their daily lives were encompassed...
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