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Friday, September 19, 2008

On the Margins: Nordic Alcohol and Drug Treatment 1885-2007


The aim of this volume is to picture the character and dynamics of the alcohol and drug treatment systems in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. How and why have new ideas and institutions emerged during its history? Who have been the actors and what have been the structures behind changes or resistance to change? What can explain the continuities and the reforms?

Contents

A Frame
Kerstin Stenius & Johan Edman

Idealistic Doctors. Alcoholism Treatment Institutions in Sweden 1885-1916
Anna Prestjan

From Gold Cure to Antabuse. Danish Treatment Traditions in a Liberal Drinking Culture
Sidsel Eriksen

“You Take a Sick Man and Put Him in Hospital”. Treatment of Excessive Drinkers in Norway in the 1930s
Olav Hamran

In the Faint Shadow of Prohibition. The First Finnish Alcoholics Act of 1936
Kerstin Stenius

Conservatism and Social Control. Treatment with Disulfiram in Denmark, 1945-2005
Henrik Thiesen

Treatment as Adaptation. A-clinics in Post-War Finland
Jukka Ahonen

On the Demise of the Norwegian Vagrancy Act
Ragnar Hauge

From Hard Labour to Unemployment. The Crisis of Work Policy within the Treatment of Alcohol Abusers in Sweden and Norway during the 1970s
Johan Edman & Olav Hamran

A Crutch for Cripples or a Shield for the Endangered? The Temporary Decline in Compulsory Care within Swedish Alcohol Treatment during the 1970s
Johan Edman

The American Package. Acceptance of Alcoholism Treatment as a Problem Solution in Iceland in the Last Quarter of the 20th Century
Hildigunnur Ólafsdóttir

After the Storm. Developments in Maintenance Treatment Policy and Practice in Sweden 1987–2006
Björn Johnson

Medicalisation with a Focus on Injecting Drug Users. Changes in the Norwegian Treatment System from the 1990s
Astrid Skretting

Professional Expertise versus Market Mechanisms in Contemporary Denmark
Mads Uffe Pedersen

From Sanatoriums to Public Injection Rooms. Actors, Ideas and Institutions in the Nordic Treatment Systems
Johan Edman & Kerstin Stenius

Authors

NAD Publications

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