Alcohol, psychiatry and society : comparative and transnational perspectives, c. 1700-1990s /

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The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of drinking. This book maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon, emphasising medical attitudes to alcohol and the changing perception of consumption in psy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ernst, Waltraud, 1955- (Editor ), Müller, Thomas, 1965- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
Colección:Social histories of medicine.
Temas:
Alcohol > Social aspects > History.
Alcohol > Therapeutic use > History.
Alcohol > Psychological aspects > History.
Alcoholism > History.
Alcohol > Psychological aspects.
Alcohol > Social aspects.
Alcohol > Therapeutic use.
Alcoholism.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • <P>Introduction: comparative and transnational perspectives on alcohol, psychiatry and society, <i>c</i>. 1500-1991
  • Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Müller <br>1 Corrupting the body and mind: distilled spirits, drunkenness and disease in early-modern England and the British Atlantic world
  • David Korostyshevsky <br>2 Alcoholism, degeneration, madness and psychiatry in Spain, <i>c. </i>1870-1923
  • Ricardo Campos<br>3 From nutrition to powerful agent of degeneration: alcohol in nineteenth-century Chile and Brazil
  • Mauricio Becerra Rebolledo<br>4 'White man's kava' in Fiji: entangling alcohol, race and insanity, <i>c. </i>1874-1970
  • Jacqueline Leckie <br>5 'In the hot and trying climate of Nigeria the European has a much stronger temptation to indulge in alcohol than the native': drunkenness in Nigeria, <i>c. </i>1880-1940
  • Simon Heap <br>6 Alcohol, abstinence and rationalisation in Germany, <i>c. </i>1870s-1910s
  • Jasmin Brötz <br>7 'Disciples of Asclepius' or 'advocates of Hermes'? Psychiatrists and alcohol in early twentieth-century Greece
  • Kostis Gkotsinas<br>8 The fear of the immoderate Muslim: alcohol, civilisation and the theories of the <i>École d'Alger</i>, <i>c.</i> 1930-62
  • Nina Saloua Studer <br>9 Alcoholism, family and society in post-WWII Japan
  • Akira Hashimoto <br>10 'May it last, such peace and life': treating alcoholism in Tito's Yugoslavia, 1948-91
  • Mat Savelli<br>11 A cradle of psychotherapy: treatment of alcohol addiction in communist Czechoslovakia, <i>c. </i>1948-89
  • Adéla Gjuricová <br>12 'A society that is sinking ever deeper into a state of chronic alcohol poisoning': medical and moral treatment of alcoholics in the Soviet Union, <i>c.</i> 1970-91
  • Christian Werkmeister <br>Index</p>

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