Social Class and the Treatment of Alcoholism: An Investigation of Social Class as a Determinant of Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Therapy

by Marcia K Moss, Reginald G Smart, Wolfgang Schmidt

Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries alcoholism was seen largely as a vice of the poor and its treatment rested almost entirely with the missions and the workhouse. The theory that alcoholism is a disease that can affect anyone regardless of social position is by no means universally accepted even today. Although in the last twenty-five years there has been a rapid increase in the number of public institutions for the treatment of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007SZYTWU
• ISBN13: 9781487582241
• Release Date: December 1968
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"