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Author Tracy, Sarah W., 1963-

Title Alcoholism in America : from reconstruction to prohibition / Sarah W. Tracy
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 357 pages)
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Disease concept(s) of inebriety -- 2. Cultural framing of inebriety -- 3. Institutional solutions for inebriety -- 4. Public inebriate hospitals and farm colonies -- 5. The "Foxborough experiment" -- 6. Building a boozatorium -- 7. On the vice and disease of inebriety -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Alcoholism -- United States -- History
Alcoholism -- Treatment -- United States -- History
Alcoholism -- Hospitals -- United States -- History
Alcoholism -- therapy
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Hospitals, Special -- history
SELF-HELP -- Substance Abuse & Addictions -- Alcoholism.
Alcoholism
Alcoholism -- Hospitals
Alcoholism -- Treatment
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781435692725
1435692721
9780801891670
0801891671