This strange illness : alcoholism and Bill W. /

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Author / Creator:Lobdell, Jared, 1937-
Imprint:New York : Aldine de Gruyter, c2004.
Description:xi, 403 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5162084
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ISBN:0202307387 (cloth : alk. paper)
0202307395 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-385) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Alcoholism and treatment for alcoholism from early times to the repeal of Prohibition
  • 2. This strange illness of mind, body, and spirit
  • 3. A scientific note : typologies, heredities, and the adjacent possible
  • 4. Mind : the psychology of alcoholism
  • 5. Body : the biogenetics and biochemistry of alcoholism
  • 6. Theology of alcoholism, sobriety, and Alcoholics Anonymous
  • 7. The twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
  • 8. The twelve traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous
  • 9. Paradigm regained : suggestions from our scientific research program.