Overview
- Editors:
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Benjamin Kissin
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Division of Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Department of Psychiatry, Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York, Brooklyn, USA
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Henri Begleiter
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Division of Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Department of Psychiatry, Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York, Brooklyn, USA
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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- Don Cahalan, Ira H. Cisin
Pages 77-115
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- Wallace Mandell, Harold M. Ginzburg
Pages 167-204
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- Jan de Lint, Wolfgang Schmidt
Pages 275-305
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- Paul M. Roman, Harrison M. Trice
Pages 445-517
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- Robert E. Popham, Wolfgang Schmidt, Jan de Lint
Pages 579-625
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Back Matter
Pages 627-643
About this book
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.
