Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/MG0p49 The Evolution of Self-Help How a Health Movement Became an Institution By: M. Archibald Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Print ISBN: 9780230600379, 0230600379 eText ISBN: 9780230609624, 0230609627 Copyright year: 2007 Format: PDF Available from $ 99.00 USD SKU 9780230609624 This book examines the institutionalization of self-help in the United States using organizational and social movement theories. Looking at a fifty-year period, Archibald charts the formation and dissolution of over 500 medical, academic, and popular organizations. He explores the ways in which the marginal practices of sufferers of chronic conditions like Parkinson's or alcoholism became the common solution for all manner of medical, behavioural, and psychological problems.
