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The Evolution of Self-Help : How a Health Movement Became an Institution by Matthew E. Archibald (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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.В 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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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Matthew E. Archibald (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781349369881
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Political Science, Science
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