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Author Midanik, Lorraine T

Title Biomedicalization of alcohol studies : ideological shifts and institutional challenges / Lorraine T. Midanik
Published New Brunswick, NJ : Aldine Transaction, 2008, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 170 pages) : illustrations
Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- 1 Introduction: The Era of Biomedicalization -- 2 Biomedicalization: At-Risk as a Steady State -- 3 Precursors of Biomedicalization in Alcohol Studies: Medicalization and the Disease Model of Alcoholism -- 4 Exiting Public Health: Expansion of the Biomedical Model in Alcohol Research -- 5 Manifestations of the New Ideology -- 6 Biomedicalization and Alcohol Research in Sweden -- 7 Biomedicalization and the Social Sciences1 -- Subject Index -- Name Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Alcoholism -- Research -- Philosophy
Alcohol -- Physiological effect.
Alcoholism -- Genetic aspects
Alcoholism -- Social aspects
Neurobiology -- Philosophy
SELF-HELP -- Substance Abuse & Addictions -- Alcoholism.
Alcohol -- Physiological effect
Alcoholism -- Genetic aspects
Alcoholism -- Social aspects
Neurobiology -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780202363103
0202363104