Alcoholism in America : from reconstruction to prohibition / Sarah W. Tracy.

  • Tracy, Sarah W., 1963-
Date:
2005
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Publication/Creation

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Physical description

xxiii, 357 pages ; 24 cm

Contents

Disease concept(s) of inebriety -- Cultural framing of inebriety -- Institutional solutions for inebriety -- Public inebriate hospitals and farm colonies -- The "Foxborough experiment" -- Building a boozatorium -- On the vice and disease of inebriety.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [292]-346) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    FCG.6.AA8-9
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ISBN

  • 0801881196