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Reveals how and why pathological drinking became a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in the early American republic. This book also reveals just how delirium tremens shaped the modern experience of alcohol addiction as a psychic struggle with inner demons.

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"In its detailed but wide-ranging attention to institutions, practices, theories, and aspirations shaping medical education, Rum Maniacs offers a sophisticated case study of the interplay of learned and popular cultures by which pathological drinking came to be imagined by nineteenth-century Americans." (Tom Augst, New York University)"

Rum Maniacs Alcoholic Insanity in the Early

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/14/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226099897, 978-0226099897
      ISBN10: 022609989X
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      Book Synopsis
      Reveals how and why pathological drinking became a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in the early American republic. This book also reveals just how delirium tremens shaped the modern experience of alcohol addiction as a psychic struggle with inner demons.

      Trade Review
      "In its detailed but wide-ranging attention to institutions, practices, theories, and aspirations shaping medical education, Rum Maniacs offers a sophisticated case study of the interplay of learned and popular cultures by which pathological drinking came to be imagined by nineteenth-century Americans." (Tom Augst, New York University)"

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