Alcoholism in North America, Europe, and Asia (Hardcover, New)

This volume represents a landmark in the important and rapidly expanding literature of cross-cultural epidemiology that has been made possible by the worldwide popularity of the DSM-III and the multi-national use of a single survey instrument: the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS). Reviewing population survey findings across ten regions of North America, Europe, and Asia, this study is the first direct cross-national comparison of personal interview data on alcoholism, including prevalence rates and risk factors. The book carefully describes the background of the various surveys and the methods of analysis and comparison. Chapters on each region describe the prevalence of drinking problems, the symptomatic expression of alcoholism in that culture, aspects of the cultural background that are relevant to drinking behavior, and the association between alcoholism and other psychiatric disorders. Of particular importance in this volume is the inclusion of a chapter on alcoholism in the Socialist Republic of China, from which very little scientific information has been readily available. The inclusion of eastern and western cultural perspectives offers insight into both universal and culturally distinct aspects of alcoholism. The volume is essential reading for psychiatrists, epidemiologists, sociologists, and alcohol theorists, researchers and clinicians.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1992
First published:	May 1992
Editors:	John E. Helzer (Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry) • Glorisa J. Canino (Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry)
Dimensions:	242 x 160 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	342
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-505090-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > Drug addiction & substance abuse
LSN:	0-19-505090-8
Barcode:	9780195050905

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