Heavy Drinking
The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease
1st Edition
Published on 21. June 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
195 pages
978-0-520-06754-7 (ISBN)
Description
Heavy Drinking informs the general public for the first time how recent research has discredited almost every widely held belief about alcoholism, including the very concept of alcoholism as a single disease with a unique cause. Herbert Fingarette presents constructive approaches to heavy drinking, including new methods of helping heavy drinkers and social policies for preventing heavy drinking and the harms associated with it.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-06754-7 (9780520067547)
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Person
Herbert Fingarette, a distinguished professor at the University of California, has been a consultant on alcoholism and addiction to the World Health Organization, and a Fellow of the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. His work has had a significant influence on the U.S. Supreme Court, state supreme courts, and current national policy makers on substance abuse.
Content
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
What Science Now Knows, but the Public Doesn't
PART 1
The Classic Disease Concept of Alcoholism
CHAPTER 1
Where Did We Get the Idea That Alcoholism
Is a Disease?
CHAPTER 2
Can Alcoholics Control Their Drinking?
CHAPTER 3
What Causes Alcoholism?
CHAPTER 4
Have "Alcoholism Treatments" Really Worked?
PART 2
New Approaches to Heavy Drinking
CHAPTER 5
Understanding Heavy Drinking as a Way of Life
CHAPTER 6
Helping the Heavy Drinker
CHAPTER 7
Social Policies to Prevent and Control
Heavy Drinking
AFTERWORD
WORKS CITED
INDEX
INTRODUCTION
What Science Now Knows, but the Public Doesn't
PART 1
The Classic Disease Concept of Alcoholism
CHAPTER 1
Where Did We Get the Idea That Alcoholism
Is a Disease?
CHAPTER 2
Can Alcoholics Control Their Drinking?
CHAPTER 3
What Causes Alcoholism?
CHAPTER 4
Have "Alcoholism Treatments" Really Worked?
PART 2
New Approaches to Heavy Drinking
CHAPTER 5
Understanding Heavy Drinking as a Way of Life
CHAPTER 6
Helping the Heavy Drinker
CHAPTER 7
Social Policies to Prevent and Control
Heavy Drinking
AFTERWORD
WORKS CITED
INDEX