The Evolution of Self-Help

M. Archibald

ISBN 10: 1349369888 / ISBN 13: 9781349369881

Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US Apr 2008, 2008

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Neuware -This book examines the institutionalization of self-help in the United States using organizational and social movement theories. Looking at a fifty-year period, Archibald charts the formation and dissolution of over 500 medical, academic, and popular organizations. He explores the ways in which the marginal practices of sufferers of chronic conditions like Parkinson's or alcoholism became the common solution for all manner of medical, behavioural, and psychological problems.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 204 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: The Evolution of Self-Help
• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US Apr 2008
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1349369888
• ISBN 13: 9781349369881
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 216 L x 140 A x 12 P (millimetri) 216 millimetri di larghezza per 140 millimetri di altezza per 12 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 264 grammi

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Riassunto

This book examines the institutionalization of self-help in the United States using organizational and social movement theories. Looking at a fifty-year period, Archibald charts the formation and dissolution of over 500 medical, academic, and popular organizations. He explores the ways in which the marginal practices of sufferers of chronic conditions like Parkinson's or alcoholism became the common solution for all manner of medical, behavioural, and psychological problems.

Informazioni sull?autore

MATTHEW E. ARCHIBALD is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Emory University, USA.