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The Evolution of Self-Help. How a Health Movement Became an Institution.
Matthew E. Archibald
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Description for The Evolution of Self-Help. How a Health Movement Became an Institution.
Paperback. Num Pages: 202 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JKS; JMH; JPQB; MMJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
Number of Pages
187
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349369881
SKU
V9781349369881
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99-15
About Matthew E. Archibald
MATTHEW E. ARCHIBALD is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Emory University, USA.
Reviews for The Evolution of Self-Help. How a Health Movement Became an Institution.
"Archibald has quantitatively estimated the legitimacy of self-help organizations via a comprehensive, careful, and original examination of medical, academic, popular, and political opinion on these groups (in newspapers, journals, and congressional hearings), and analyzed competition for resources among the groups utilizing all of these data. This book is a very relevant reference tool for anyone interested in the phenomenon of ... Read more