The Disease Concept of Alcoholism by E.M. Jellinek
The Disease Concept of Alcoholism by E.M. Jellinek.
This book is a first printing with the original dust jacket from 1960.
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"An honest publisher," Professor Jellinek remarked one day, "would warn on the jacket of this book that temperance societies and the alcoholic-beverage industry should not read it. It will not make them happy."
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“The project on which this book is based began in 1957 when the Christopher D. Smithers Foundation sponsored a study of attitudes throughout the world toward the concept of alcoholism as a disease. No individual could have been better chosen to carry out this work than the widely traveled multilingual dean of the field of research on alcohol problems, Dr. E. M. Jellinek.
His definitive survey explores the historical development of attitudes toward alcoholism as a disease; analyzes the varied scientific approaches to the prob-lem; and, finally, reviews beliefs and attitudes in different segments of the public in countries around the world. His original classification of "the alcoholisms" lays a foundation for a disease concept based on scientific principles.
For all who are seriously interested in this major public health problem this book is essential.”
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E. M. JELLINEK
The author of The Disease Concept of Alcoholism, presently on the faculty of Stanford University, is world famous as founder of the Center of Alcohol Studies and Summer School of Alcohol Studies, formerly at Yale and now at Rutgers University, as well as the Yale Plan Clinics, the Classified Abstract Archive of the Alcohol Literature, and the Master Bibliography of the Alcohol Literature. He is also a co-founder of the National Council on Alcoholism, has been the World Health Organization Consultant on Alcoholism, and is a member of the newly formed Cooperative Commission on Alcoholism and an Associate Editor of the QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF STUDIES ON ALCOHOL. His original researches have been landmarks of knowledge and points of departure for scientific progress and he has served as guide and mentor for others in their research undertakings.
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This book is in very good condition.
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