Download or read book Alcoholism in America written by Sarah W. Tracy and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-05-21 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the lack of medical consensus regarding alcoholism as a disease, many people readily accept the concept of addiction as a clinical as well as a social disorder. An alcoholic is a victim of social circumstance and genetic destiny. Although one might imagine that this dual approach is a reflection of today's enlightened and sympathetic society, historian Sarah Tracy discovers that efforts to medicalize alcoholism are anything but new. Alcoholism in America tells the story of physicians, politicians, court officials, and families struggling to address the danger of excessive alcohol consumption at the turn of the century. Beginning with the formation of the American Association for the Cure of Inebriates in 1870 and concluding with the enactment of Prohibition in 1920, this study examines the effect of the disease concept on individual drinkers and their families and friends, as well as the ongoing battle between policymakers and the professional medical community for jurisdiction over alcohol problems. Tracy captures the complexity of the political, professional, and social negotiations that have characterized the alcoholism field both yesterday and today. Tracy weaves American medical history, social history, and the sociology of knowledge into a narrative that probes the connections among reform movements, social welfare policy, the specialization of medicine, and the social construction of disease. Her insights will engage all those interested in America's historic and current battles with addiction.

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Download or read book Diseases of the Will written by Mariana Valverde and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While associated with comfort and pleasure, alcohol has been and is a 'problem' substance, both for medical and political authorities and for many drinkers. In this broad-ranging and innovative historical-sociological investigation, Valverde explores the ways in which both authorities and individual consumers have defined and managed the pleasures and dangers of alcoholic beverages. The author explores the question of free will versus determinism and how it has been challenged by ideas about addiction, morality and psychology during the last 150 years. The book draws on sources from the US, UK, Canada and elsewhere, and covers topics including nineteenth century 'dipsomania', the history of inebriate homes, Alcoholics Anonymous, fetal alcohol education and liquor control. It will appeal to readers in legal studies, criminology, sociology, psychology, social theory and the history of medicine.

Download or read book The Disease of Inebriety from Alcohol Opium and Other Narcotic Drugs written by American Association for the Study and Cure of Inebriety and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Disease of Inebriety from Alcohol Opium and Other Narcotic Drugs written by American Association for the Study and Cure of Inebriety and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Disease of Inebriety from Alcohol Opium and Other Narcotic Drugs written by American Association for the Study and Cure of Inebriety and published by Ayer Company Pub. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Problems of Drug Dependence 1996 written by Louie S. Harrie and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symposium presentations address: molecular biological tools in exploring behavior; drugs of abuse and the immune system; marijuana use; motivational aspects of drug abuse; excitatory amino acids in stimulant abuse and AIDS dementia; agonist efficacy, drug dependence, and medications development; drugs of abuse and gender differences; presynaptic and postsynaptic neurochemical alterations in human psychostimulant abusers; antibody and protein based therapies for drug abuse; behavioral and pharmacological interventions for pregnant substance abusers; and mechanisms of abused drugs: concordance between lab. animal and human studies.

Download or read book Disease Concept of Alcoholism written by E. M. Jellinek and published by Martino Fine Books. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of 1960 Edition. Jellinek was the founder of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies and several other research centers. Jellinek coined the expression "the disease concept of alcoholism," and significantly accelerated the movement towards the medicalization of drunkenness and alcohol habituation. This book was considered the most careful and penetrating analysis of its theme up to its time of publication. In 1960 he left Yale to develop work on alcoholism for the World Health Organization and other research centers concerned with the study of alcoholism. The Disease Concept of Alcoholism is now considered a classic work in the field.

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