Diseases of the will : alcohol and the dilemmas of freedom

Mariana Valverde

Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1998 · 631 citations · 0 references

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Introduction 1. Disease or habit? Alcoholism and the exercise of freedom 2. Repairing diseased wills: Victorian science and pastoral medicine before 'alcoholism' 3. The fragmentation of inebriety 4. 'Enlightened hedonism': the emergence of alcohol science in the US 5. The power of powerlessness: Alcoholics Anonymous techniques for governing the self 6. The liquor of government and the government of liquor 7. Reducing risks, replacing fluids 8. Judicial diagnostics: 'Intoxicated Automatism' and the resurrection of the will.