Author: Valverde, Mariana
Title: Diseases of the Will : Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. orig.boards. 24x16cm, xii,251 pp. Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society.. Textual photo illustrations.. Minor rubbing. Some bumps to binding edges. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction; Desease or Habit? Alcoholism and the Exercise of Freedon; Repairing Diseased Wills: Victorian Science and Pastoral Medicine before Alcoholism; The Fragmentation of Inebriety; Enlightened Hedonism: The Emergence of Alcohol Science in the United States; The Power of Powerlessness Alcoholics Anonymous Techniques for Governing the Self; The Liquor of Government and the Government of Liquor; Reducing Risks, Replacing Fluids; Judicial Diagnostics: Intoxicated Automanism and the Resurrection of the Will.

Keywords: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Rehabilitation, Free Will, Psychology, Sociology, , ,