Social Aspects of Alcoholism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. Alcohol Use in Tribal Societies

   • Margaret K. Bacon

   Pages 1-36

3. Anthropological Perspectives on the Social Biology of Alcohol: An Introduction to the Literature

   • Dwight B. Heath

   Pages 37-76

4. Drinking Behavior and Drinking Problems in the United States

   • Don Cahalan, Ira H. Cisin

   Pages 77-115

5. Alcoholism in Women

   • Edith S. Gomberg

   Pages 117-166

6. Youthful Alcohol Use, Abuse, and Alcoholism

   • Wallace Mandell, Harold M. Ginzburg

   Pages 167-204

7. Family Structure and Behavior in Alcoholism: A Review of the Literature

   • Joan Ablon

   Pages 205-242

8. The Alcoholic Personality

   • Allan F. Williams

   Pages 243-274

9. Alcoholism and Mortality

   • Jan de Lint, Wolfgang Schmidt

   Pages 275-305

10. Alcohol and Unintentional Injury

    • Julian A. Waller

    Pages 307-349

11. Alcohol and Crimes of Violence

    • Kai Pernanen

    Pages 351-444

12. Alcohol Abuse and Work Organizations

    • Paul M. Roman, Harrison M. Trice

    Pages 445-517

13. Education and the Prevention of Alcoholism

    • Howard T. Blane

    Pages 519-578

14. The Effects of Legal Restraint on Drinking

    • Robert E. Popham, Wolfgang Schmidt, Jan de Lint

    Pages 579-625

15. Back Matter

    Pages 627-643

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The first three volumes of this series have dealt with materials which generally justify the title, The Biology of Alcoholism. This is only remotely true of the present volume, Social Aspects of Alcoholism, or of the final volume to come, Treatment and Rehabilitation. Except for small portions of the treatment section which involve pharmacotherapy, much of these last two volumes deals with the psychological aspects of alcoholism and still more with the social. It is interesting to review the evolution of this new pattern over the past seven years, a pattern which, had it existed initially, would have resulted, if not in a dif­ ferent format, at least in a different title. Our initial selection of areas to be covered was influenced by our desire to present as "hard" data as possible, in an attempt to lend a greater aura of scientific rigor to a field which was generally considered as "soft. " When we completed our review of this material in volumes 1-3, we recognized that what we might have gained in rigor, we had more than lost in completeness. These volumes presented a picture of a biological disease syndrome for which the remedies and preventive measures were presumably also biological. And yet, most workers in the field readily accept the significant contributions of psychological and social factors to the pathogenesis and treatment of alcoholism.

• alcohol
• behavior
• biological
• biology
• evolution
• influence
• pathogenesis
• prevention
• structure
• therapy

• Division of Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Department of Psychiatry, Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York, Brooklyn, USA

  Benjamin Kissin, Henri Begleiter

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