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How Long Is “Sick: A Documentary”?
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Produced through the social justice program at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Printed in 2012._x000D_ Histories of mental health care are usually characterized as progress from unkind prison-like warehousing of the mad from the 1700’s to modern educated, caring, and efficient treatment._x000D_ Yet, that progress was punctuated with critical views that indicate that institutional needs frequently over-ride humane treatment, and this documentary is part of the narrative._x000D_ “Sick” is a comparison of the modern experience by teenagers to the idea of “the complete institution” as developed by sociologist Erving Goffman in his 1961 collection of essays titled “Asylums”.
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