This 19-volume set has titles originally published between 1951 and 1991. The books examine alcohol in a variety of ways, particularly the debates around, and the progression in, treatment for alcoholism through the 1970s and 1980s, but also in the wider social and economic sense. Still a concern today, it also includes titles that focus on young drinkers and health education. This collection will be of interest to all those interested in alcohol and its impact on both the individual and society.
By Hermann Levy
December 02, 2023
Originally published in 1951, this title was the last book by Hermann Levy who died in 1949 before it was finished. Completed by his friend and fellow academic Rolf P. Lynton, this title looks alcohol as a drink, both economically and socially. Divided into three parts – in brief: what is the drink...
By Barbara Howe
December 01, 2023
Alcohol education in the 1980s was receiving greater emphasis in the training and practice of a wide range of health and welfare professionals. As we became more aware of the risks associated with excessive drinking, this practical, straightforward guide, originally published in 1989, would have ...
By Phil Davies, Dermot Walsh
December 01, 2023
The nature of alcohol problems is very diverse and the strategies adopted for minimising these vary even more. Thinking in the study of alcohol problems in the 1970s and early 1980s had focused on the public health perspective, seeking not only to lessen alcohol problems by controlling the ...
By Marcus Grant, Bruce Ritson
December 01, 2023
In the early 1980s, emphasis had shifted from the treatment of alcohol problems to their prevention. Yet no clear integrated policy yet existed about how alcohol problems could best be prevented. Many different strategies were put forward as solutions but some were in competition with each other, ...
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By Griffith Edwards, Marcus Grant
December 01, 2023
Originally published in 1977, alcoholism was acknowledged to be a seriously growing problem in many parts of the world. It is a complex disorder with psychiatric, physical, psychological and social aspects, having far reaching harmful effects on the family and society, as well as on physical and ...
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By Griffith Edwards, Marcus Grant
December 01, 2023
Originally published in 1980, the purpose of this book was to aid a process of rethinking alcoholism treatment. Such a process was already underway in many parts of the world at the time. It was hoped that this volume would be useful in the modest role of abetting such a rethinking. Alcoholism ...
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By Marcus Grant, Paul Gwinner
December 01, 2023
In the 1970s, an important change of emphasis had occurred in the field of alcoholism. Instead of seeing alcoholism as an ‘all or none phenomenon’ it was now recognised that a continuum of alcohol problems existed so that individual cases could show different degrees of dependence and different ...
By Nick Heather, Ian Robertson
December 01, 2023
Originally published in 1981 and revised in 1983, Controlled Drinking was the first scholarly review of the literature on a controversial but increasingly practiced approach to the treatment of alcoholism. Nick Heather and Ian Robertson analyse all the pertinent questions that controlled drinking ...
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By Tim Stockwell, Sue Clement
December 01, 2023
Originally published in 1987, Helping the Problem Drinker addressed the realisation that only a small proportion of problem drinkers ever contacted existing treatment agencies, and that therefore a more comprehensive community-oriented approach should be developed. This included training of primary...
By Stan Shaw, Alan Cartwright, Terry Spratley, Judith Harwin
December 01, 2023
In the 1970s family doctors, social workers, researchers and administrators had been aware of the inadequacy of the response to drinking problems for some time. However, there had been no systematic examination of why such agents felt negatively about drinkers and disinclined to respond to them. ...
By Various
December 01, 2023
This 19-volume set has titles originally published between 1951 and 1991. The books examine alcohol in a variety of ways, particularly the debates around, and the progression in, treatment for alcoholism through the 1970s and 1980s, but also in the wider social and economic sense. Still a concern ...
Edited
By Nick Heather, Ian H. Robertson, Phil Davies
December 01, 2023
In the 1980s the study of alcoholism was in a period of rapid change, this book, originally published in 1985, identifies and explores the three most controversial contemporary issues: changes at the basic explanatory level in our concept of harmful drinking; the undermining of our confidence that ...