The evolution of self-help PDF, ePub eBook

The evolution of self-help

File Name:The evolution of self-help
Posted By:Matthew Archibald
Published on 2007-11-27 by Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN-10:0230600379
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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.#xA0;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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