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

Thomas Trotter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2013
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-72009-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Originally published in 1988 as part of the Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry series, 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.

Thomas Trotter, Roy Porter

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.7.2013
Reihe/Serie	Psychology Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Suchtkrankheiten
ISBN-10	0-415-72009-5 / 0415720095
ISBN-13	978-0-415-72009-0 / 9780415720090
Zustand	Neuware