Alcohol, Psychiatry and Society - Comparative and Transnational Perspectives, C. 17001990s

Informationen zum Autor Waltraud Ernst is a Professor of the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University Klappentext 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.

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• Authors: Waltraud Muller Ernst
• Assisted by: David Cantor (Editor), Waltraud Ernst (Editor), Ernst Waltraud (Editor), Thomas Muller (Editor), Thomas Müller (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781526159403
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5940-3
• No. of pages: 424
• Series: Social Histories of Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, MEDICAL / Mental Health, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, HISTORY / Social History, Coping with drug & alcohol abuse, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, Psychiatry, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Medicine, Social and cultural history, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, Coping with / advice about drug and alcohol problems