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XLIII; 203 S. Fadengehefteter Originalpappband mit Schutzumschlag.

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Gebraucht, aber sehr gut erhalten. - (Nachdruck der Ausgabe London 1804). - An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical on Drunkenness and its Effects on the Human Body It was during the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth 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-nineteenth century, 'alcoholism' 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. Roy Porter's Introduction to this facsimile reprint locates Trotter's work within the wider history of the evolution of the idea of alcoholism. It also examines the Essay in the context of Trotter's own life and mind - a mind preoccupied with what he saw as the degenerative tendencies of modern civilization and with the wider issues of drug dependence. The editor: Roy Porter is Senior Lecturer in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. (Klappentext) ISBN 0415006368