Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-227) and index.
Contents:
Preface -- God's own medicine -- The therapeutic revolution -- The habitués: the nineteenth century -- Society and the habitués -- Cures and treatments -- Regulation -- Society withdraws: the 1920s to the 1950s -- A new problem -- Notes -- Bibliographical essay -- Index.
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