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Alcohol, psychiatry and society : comparative and transnational perspectives, c. 1700-1990s / edited by Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Müller.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Social histories of medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alcoholism--History.
- Alcoholism.
- Alcohol--Psychological aspects--History.
- Alcohol.
- Alcohol--Therapeutic use--History.
- Alcohol--Social aspects--History.
- Alcohol--Psychological aspects.
- Alcohol--Social aspects.
- Alcohol--Therapeutic use.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 401 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 23 x 15 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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, 1870-1920 / 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, c. 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. 18 70s-1 910s / Jasmin Brotz
- 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 tcole d'Alger, 1933-1962 / Nina S. Studer
- 9. Alcoholism, family and society in post-World War II Japan / Akira Hashimoto
- 10. `May it last, such peace and life': treating alcoholism in Tito's Yugoslavia, 1948-1991 / Mat Savelli
- 11. A cradle of psychotherapy: treatment of alcohol addiction in Communist Czechoslovakia, c. 1948-1989 / Adela Gjuricova
- 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. 1970-1991 / Christian Werkmeister.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781526159403
- 1526159406
- OCLC:
- 1346309044
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