M. Archibald
Palgrave Macmillan US
e druk, 2008
9781349369881
The Evolution of Self-Help
How a Health Movement Became an Institution
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US |
e druk, 2008
ISBN13: 9781349369881
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349369881
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US
Inhoudsopgave
The Demography of Self-Help Defining Self-Help: How Does a Movement become an Institution? From Small Beginnings: Growth and Diversification Legitimation: The Paradox of Public Recognition of Self-Help The Evolution of Public Recognition and Its Consequences Resources: How Competition Selects Only the Fittest Organizations Conclusion and Future Directions