Dealing with Drink: Alcohol and Social Policy in Contemporary England

by Betsy Thom

This book examines the social, political and health policy contexts within which alcohol treatment policy has emerged and changed since 1950. Three themes are highlighted as particularly relevant to an examination of policy trends: the emergence and evolution of a policy community spear-headed by psychiatrists in the 1960s but broadening to include other professions and the voluntary sector by the 1980s; the role of research which influenced the nature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853434507
• ISBN13: 9781853434501
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Free Association Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"