Rum Maniacs - Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic

Reveals how and why pathological drinking became a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in the early American republic. This book also reveals just how delirium tremens shaped the modern experience of alcohol addiction as a psychic struggle with inner demons.

About the author

Matthew Warner Osborn is assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Summary

Reveals how and why pathological drinking became a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in the early American republic. This book also reveals just how delirium tremens shaped the modern experience of alcohol addiction as a psychic struggle with inner demons.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Warner Osborn, Osborn Matthew Warner
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.03.2014
• EAN: 9780226099897
• ISBN: 978-0-226-09989-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SCIENCE / History, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Science, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas