Biomedicalization of Alcohol Studies: Ideological Shifts and Institutional Challenges

ISBN-13: 9781138507685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 181 str.

Midanik, Lorraine

Opis

Biomedicalization is seen as the natural outgrowth of continued scientific progress--a movement towards improving the quality and quantity of life through scientific inquiries using biomedical perspectives and methods

Spis treści

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: The Era of Biomedicalization
2. Biomedicalization: At-Risk as a Steady State
3. Precursors of Biomedicalization in Alcohol Studies:
Medicalization and the Disease Model of Alcoholism
4. Exiting Public Health: Expansion of the Biomedical
Model in Alcohol Research
5. Manifestations of the New Ideology
6. Biomedicalization and Alcohol Research in Sweden
7. Biomedicalization and the Social Sciences
Subject Index
Name Index
Invitation to the Scholarly Community

O autorze

Midanik, Lorraine