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Excess and the mean in early modern English literature
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ISBN: 0691090289 9786612158643 1400824931 1282158643 1400814634 9781400814633 9780691090283 9781400824939 Year: 2002 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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This book examines how English writers from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration transformed and contested the ancient ideal of the virtuous mean. As early modern authors learned at grammar school and university, Aristotle and other classical thinkers praised "golden means" balanced between extremes: courage, for example, as opposed to cowardice or recklessness. By uncovering the enormous variety of English responses to this ethical doctrine, Joshua Scodel revises our understanding of the vital interaction between classical thought and early modern literary culture. Scodel argues that English authors used the ancient schema of means and extremes in innovative and contentious ways hitherto ignored by scholars. Through close readings of diverse writers and genres, he shows that conflicting representations of means and extremes figured prominently in the emergence of a self-consciously modern English culture. Donne, for example, reshaped the classical mean to promote individual freedom, while Bacon held extremism necessary for human empowerment. Imagining a modern rival to ancient Rome, georgics from Spenser to Cowley exhorted England to embody the mean or lauded extreme paths to national greatness. Drinking poetry from Jonson to Rochester expressed opposing visions of convivial moderation and drunken excess, while erotic writing from Sidney to Dryden and Behn pitted extreme passion against the traditional mean of conjugal moderation. Challenging his predecessors in various genres, Milton celebrated golden means of restrained pleasure and self-respect. Throughout this groundbreaking study, Scodel suggests how early modern treatments of means and extremes resonate in present-day cultural debates.

Alcohol problems in the United States
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ISBN: 0789020491 1317825349 1315821265 1317825357 9781317825340 0789020483 9780789020482 9780789020499 9781315821269 9781317825333 9781317825357 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York

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Alcohol Problems in the United States: Twenty Years of Treatment Perspective presents an overview of trends in the treatment of alcohol problems over a 20-year period from three vantage points: broader treatment perspectives, experienced views from the field, and personal perspectives. Some of the field's foremost experts, including Alcoholics Anonymous historian Dr. Ernest Kurtz and Dr. Robert Sparks, who chaired the committee that authored the Institute of Medicine's highly influential study, ?Broadening the Base of Treatment for Alcohol Problems,? provide practical information on the vital

From hunting to drinking : the devastating effects of alcohol on an Australian Aboriginal community
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ISBN: 0415271509 113448710X 1280068884 0203398327 9780203398326 9780415271509 9780415271516 0415271517 9786610068883 6610068887 0415271517 9781134487103 9781134487059 1134487053 9781134487097 1134487096 Year: 2002 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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'From Hunting to Drinking' reveals the devastating effects that alcohol has had over a period of 30 years on an Australian aboriginal community. David McKnight's study examines the historical influence and government interference.

Services research in the era of managed care : organization, access, economics, outcome
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ISBN: 0306471930 0306464411 Year: 2002 Publisher: London ; New York : Kluwer Academic,

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From the President of the Research Society on Alcoholism - On behalf of the Research Society on Alcoholism I welcome the important contribution that Volume 15 of this excellent series on Recent Developments in Alcoholism brings to our field. It is not enough for our scientists to develop effective and efficient methods to identify and treat alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence; the availability of these services is often limited and it is certainly nonexistent for the early problem drinker. In nineteen outstanding chapters, Volume 15 deals with organizational issues concerning access to and delivery of substance abuse treatment and the role of managed care. Several chapters deal with economic issues, cost-benefits, and - financing of these services. Lastly, five address recent treatment outcome studies. Thus, this volume will be of great value to both scientists and practitioners. The Editor and Associate Editors are congratulated for this conceptual and organizational accomplishment. Yedy Israel, Ph.D.

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