Evolution of Self-Help, The: How a Health Movement Became an Institution
Author:   Matthew E Archibald
Publisher:   Palgrave MacMillan
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9781281844972


Publication Date:   01 January 2007
Format:   Electronic book text
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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, behavioral, and psychological problems.

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Author:   Matthew E Archibald
Publisher:   Palgrave MacMillan
Imprint:   Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:  

9781281844972


ISBN 10:   1281844977
Publication Date:   01 January 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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