Alcoholism in America : from reconstruction to prohibition
Title:
Alcoholism in America : from reconstruction to prohibition
Author:
Tracy, Sarah W., 1963-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2005]
©2005
Physical Description:
xxiii, 357 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
ISBN:
9780801881190
Format :
Book
