자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0016931047

International Standard Book Number  

9798380858151

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

900

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Korostyshevsky, David.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : University of Minnesota., 2021

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021

Physical Description  

1 online resource(258 p.)

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: B.

General Note  

Advisor: Tobbell, Dominique A;Blumenthal, Susanna L.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2021.

Restrictions on Access Note  

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Summary, Etc.  

요약During the nineteenth century, the habitual drunkard became a problematic kind of person who required medical and legal attention. Growing anxieties about compulsive drinking coalesced around the terminology of habitual drunkenness, a concept that captured the sense that alcohol caused compulsion. Religious temperance reformers, many of whom were physicians, defined habitual drunkenness as an artificial appetite, a physiological condition of habituation in which the drinker lost the physical capacity for control over drinking. Non-medical actors such as civil courts and life insurers also took up the quest to define, detect, and discipline the habitual drunkard. When intoxicated heads of households neglected their families and estates, civil courts placed them under guardianship, a legal status that recognized habitual drunkenness as a form of mental incapacity. Guardianship also abridged the habitual drunkard's property and contract rights. In a parallel vein, life insurers sought to avoid insuring habitual drunkards through medical screening and the inclusion of temperance clauses into their policy contracts. Both courts and life insurers worked to apply generalized definitions of habitual drunkenness to specific individuals before them. In both contexts, a combination of public and private actors navigated a complex combination of scientific and medical knowledge about alcohol, religious temperance ideologies about drunkenness as sin, and changing legal doctrine regarding mental capacity as they governed and disciplined compulsive drinkers. In the adjudication of guardianship cases and in life insurers' quest to exclude drinkers, non-medical actors established habitual drunkenness as a serviceable-albeit contested, inchoate, and often ambiguous-medico-legal category.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

History.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Medicine.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Law.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Alcohol

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Guardianship

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Life insurance

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Medicine

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Temperance

Added Entry-Corporate Name  

University of Minnesota History of Science Technology and Medicine

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-05B.

Host Item Entry  

Dissertation Abstract International

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