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Reprint of 1960 Edition. Jellinek was the founder of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies and several other research centers. Jellinek coined the expression the disease concept of alcoholism , and significantly accelerated the movement towards the medicalization of drunkenness and alcohol habituation. This book was considered the most careful and penetrating analysis of its theme up to its time of publication. In 1960 he left Yale to develop work on alcoholism for the World Health Organization and other research centers concerned with the study of alcoholism. The Disease Concept of Alcoholism is now considered a classic work in the field.Product Identifiers
PublisherMartino FINE Books
ISBN-139781578989362
eBay Product ID (ePID)93408766
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Book TitleDisease Concept of Alcoholism
AuthorE M Jellinek
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicCoping with Illness
Publication Year2010
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Item Height234mm
Item Width156mm
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