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An Army of Reformed Drunkards and Clergymen: The Medicalization of Habitual Drunkenness, 1857-1910

j of hx of medicine and allied sciences

Historians have recognized that men with drinking problems were not simply the passive subjects of medical reform and urban social control in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America but also actively shaped the partial medicalization of habitual drunkenness. The role played by evangelical religion in constituting their agency and in the historical process of medicalization has not been adequately explored, however.

Posted in: History on 03/23/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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