Alcoholism And Medicalization

The Medicalization of Alcoholism: Discontinuities in …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002204268501500105

The purposes of this paper, data for which are derived from research conducted on attitudes of alcohol and drug program professionals, are two-fold: first, to briefly examine the sociohistorical origins of the disease concept of alcoholism and of its ready acceptance …

Medicalization – Subcultures and Sociology - Grinnell …

https://haenfler.sites.grinnell.edu/subcultural-theory-and-theorists/medicalization/

The Evolution of Addiction Medicine as a …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/evolution-addiction-medicine-medical-specialty/2011-12

Alcoholism was clearly described as a disease as long ago as the late 1700s by Dr. Benjamin Rush, a physician and signer of the …

Medicalization and regulation of alcohol and alcoholism: …

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/016025279090010Z

Future studies of alcoholism and the regulation of alcohol distribution and consumption could usefully employ the insights of critical theorists, while incorporating a …

Medicalizing Addiction | Freedom Magazine

https://www.freedommag.org/magazine/201704-addiction/medicalizing-addiction.html

The latest evidence of the medicalization of addiction came on January 16, 2017, from the White House Office of National Drug …

Alcoholism | Definition, Causes, & Associated Diseases

https://www.britannica.com/science/alcoholism

alcoholism, excessive and repetitive drinking of alcoholic beverages to the extent that the drinker repeatedly is harmed or harms others. The harm may be physical …

When Was Alcoholism Recognized as a Disease?

https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/alcohol-abuse/alcoholism-recognized-disease/

The American Medical Association deemed alcoholism as a disease in 1956. Today, multiple leading medical organizations and governing bodies agree. The concept …

Mrs. Marty Mann and the Medicalization of Alcoholism

https://pointshistory.com/2011/12/16/mrs-marty-mann-and-the-medicalization-of-alcoholism/

Hence, (a) if A.A. was the institution that, deep down, drove the modern alcoholism movement and (b) if the movement’s ideological centerpiece, the disease …

Medicalizing Obesity: Individual, …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medicalizing-obesity-individual-economic-and-medical-consequences/2011-12

Defining Medicalization As Sadler and colleagues [1] define it, “‘medicalization’ describes a process by which human problems become defined and treated as medical problems” [2]. According to …

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