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On the biomedicalization of alcoholism

The shift in the prevailing view of alcoholism from a moral paradigm towards a biomedical paradigm is often characterized as a form of biomedicalization. We will examine and critique three reasons offered for the claim that viewing alcoholism as a disease is morally problematic. The first is that th...

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Autores principales: Berghmans, Ron, de Jong, Johan, Tibben, Aad, de Wert, Guido
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19424820
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11017-009-9103-7