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Fascinating. Tracy's book tells a compelling and revelatory story.
Any reader interested in the subjects of alcoholism or addiction will find it worthwhile.
A pathbreaking argument about what medicalization meant for patients as well as doctors and, more generally, American culture.
Essential reading for any clinician with a historical bent. This valuable monograph traces the tension between moralism and science in the understanding of alcoholism.
Tracy sets a new standard of sophistication in this lucid exposition of alcohol as 'a complicated cultural signifier.'
One of the signal achievements of Alcoholism in America is its thorough historicization of modern understandings of alcohol abuse.
Offers historical insight into the sources and solutions to alcohol-related problems... This book will find many appreciative audiences.
Meticulous and smart... An important contribution to the field of alcohol and temperance history.
This excellent volume reworks intellectual territory opened up in the 1970s and 1980s by members of the Alcohol Research Group.
The most interesting aspect of the book is her analysis of the complex mix of medical and moral considerations that informed the approach to alcoholism over the period.
Tells new and important histories of people's efforts to find a cure for themselves or others and provides examples of heartbreaking failures. Her book enriches our reading of reform in this period.
[Tracy's] fine book illuminates a neglected and often misunderstood chapter in the history of alcohol and alcoholism.
This is an excellent book... full of interesting case studies, anecdotes and historical insights. It is well worth reading by all of those who have an interest in the way in which we currently construe alcohol policy, and is a brimful of reminders that we are regularly in danger of reinventing the heel unless we carefully study the history of this ubiquitous and puzzling problem.
Outstanding. This work combines one of the finest surveys of the alcoholism field for this period with some of the best institutional research I've seen. Tracy's command of the inebriety and alcoholism field is unrivaled.
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Available
Trim Size
6
x 9
Pages
384
ISBN
9780801886201
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Disease Concept(s) of Inebriety
2. Cultural Framing of Inebriety
3. Institutional Solutions for Inebriety
4. Public Inebriate Hospitals and Farm Colonies
5. The
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Disease Concept(s) of Inebriety
2. Cultural Framing of Inebriety
3. Institutional Solutions for Inebriety
4. Public Inebriate Hospitals and Farm Colonies
5. The "Foxborough Experiment"
6. Building a Boozatorium
7. On the Vice and Disease of Inebriety
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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