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Title Alcohol, psychiatry and society : comparative and transnational perspectives, 1700-1990s / edited by Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Müller.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
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Series Social histories of medicine
Social histories of medicine.
Summary 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 psychiatry and mental health.
Note Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 05, 2022).
Contents Introduction: comparative and transnational perspectives on alcohol, psychiatry and society, c.1500-1991 -- Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Müller ; 1 Corrupting the body and mind: distilled spirits, drunkenness and disease in early-modern England and the British Atlantic world -- David Korostyshevsky ; 2 Alcoholism, degeneration, madness and psychiatry in Spain, c.1870-1923 -- Ricardo Campos ; 3 From nutrition to powerful agent of degeneration: alcohol in nineteenth-century Chile and Brazil -- Mauricio Becerra Rebolledo ; 4 'White man's kava' in Fiji: entangling alcohol, race and insanity, 1874-1970 -- Jacqueline Leckie ; 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, c.1880-1940 -- Simon Heap ; 6 Alcohol, abstinence and rationalisation in Germany, c.1870s-1910s -- Jasmin Brötz ; 7 'Disciples of Asclepius' or 'advocates of Hermes'? Psychiatrists and alcohol in early twentieth-century Greece -- Kostis Gkotsinas ; 8 The fear of the immoderate Muslim: alcohol, civilisation and the theories of the École d'Alger, c.1930-62 -- Nina Saloua Studer ; 9 Alcoholism, family and society in post-WWII Japan -- Akira Hashimoto ; 10 'May it last, such peace and life': treating alcoholism in Tito's Yugoslavia, c.1948-91 -- Mat Savelli ; 11 A cradle of psychotherapy: treatment of alcohol addiction in communist Czechoslovakia, c.1948-89 -- Adéla Gjuricová ; 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, c.1970-91 -- Christian Werkmeister -- Index
Subject Alcohol -- Social aspects -- History.
Alcohol -- Therapeutic use -- History.
Alcohol -- Psychological aspects -- History.
Alcoholism -- History.
Medicine.
Alcool -- Aspect social -- Histoire.
Alcool -- Emploi en thérapeutique -- Histoire.
Alcool -- Aspect psychologique -- Histoire.
Alcoolisme -- Histoire.
Médecine.
medicine (discipline)
Medical / History.
Medical / Mental Health.
Medical / Psychiatry.
Alcohol -- Psychological aspects
Alcohol -- Social aspects
Alcohol -- Therapeutic use
Alcoholism
Genre/Form History
Added Author Ernst, Waltraud, 1955- editor.
Müller, Thomas, 1965- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Ernst, Waltraud Alcohol, Psychiatry and Society Manchester : Manchester University Press,c2022 9781526159403
ISBN 9781526159410 electronic book
1526159414 electronic book
9781526159397 (ePub ebook)
1526159392
9781526159403 (hbk.)
Standard No. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526159410
AU@ 000072997702
UKMGB 020711056

 
    
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