An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical on Drunkenness and Its Effects on the Human Body (Psychology Revivals)

ISBN-13: 9780415720113 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 216 str.

Thomas Trotter; Roy Porter

Opis

It was during the course of the 18th and 19th centuries that the problem of chronic alcohol dependence in modern society and its consequent medical effects emerged. The topic of drunkenness figures prominently in the thinking and writing of social reformers, politicians, theorists, medical practitioners, and psychiatrists. Eventually, by the mid-19th century, alchoholism was named as the disease of habitual drunkenness. Possibly the most important book to predict this was 'Trotter's Essay', written in 1804. Through case studies based on wide experience, he detailed the manifestations of alcoholism, ventured therapeutic recommendations, and squarely termed drunkenness a disease - indeed, a mental disease.

Spis treści

Preface.  Introduction by Roy Porter.  An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical, on Drunkenness and its Effects on the Human Body by Thomas Trotter.

O autorze

Thomas Trotter, Roy Porter