Alcohol, psychiatry and society : comparative and transnational perspectives, c. 1700-1990s /: comparative and transnational perspectives, c. 1700-1990s. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Waltraud Ernst, Thomas Müller.
• Editors: Ernst, Waltraud, 1955-; Müller, Thomas, 1965-
• 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, 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. 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, 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
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 362.29209; Alcoholism -- History; Alcohol -- Psychological aspects -- History; Alcohol -- Therapeutic use -- History; Alcohol -- Social aspects -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526159397; 9781526159410
• Related ISBNs: 9781526159403
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