“What shall we do with the inebriate?” asylum treatment and the disease concept of alcoholism in the late nineteenth century
作者:
Edward M. Brown,
期刊:
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
(WILEY Available online 1985)
卷期:
Volume 21,
issue 1
页码: 48-59
ISSN:0022-5061
年代: 1985
DOI:10.1002/1520-6696(198501)21:1<48::AID-JHBS2300210105>3.0.CO;2-X
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractDuring the late nineteenth century a number of physicians, sometimes called inebriety specialists, combined a narrowly physicalistic disease concept of alcoholism with a high regard for the curative power of asylum treatment to advocate the development of specialized asylums for the treatment of alcoholism. Central to the idea of such an inebriate asylum was the belief that the power to detain the alcoholic was necessary to cure his disease. This article considers why inebriety specialists held this belief as well as why others opposed it. It also describes alternative approaches to alcoholism and the fate of efforts, during this period, to treat the alcoholic by confining him.
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