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The evolution of self-help
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Title/Author:
The evolution of self-help/ Matthew E. Archibald.
Author:
Archibald, Matthew.
Published:
New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2007.,
Description:
xiii, 187 p. :ill. :
Subject:
Self-help techniques - History. - United States -
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9780230609624
The evolution of self-help
Archibald, Matthew.
The evolution of self-help
[electronic resource] /Matthew E. Archibald. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2007. - xiii, 187 p. :ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-175) and index.
The demography of self-help -- Defining self-help : how does a movement become an institution? -- From small beginnings : growth and diversification -- Legitimation : the paradox of public recognition of self-help -- The evolution of public recognition and its consequences -- Resources : how competition selects only the fittest organizations -- Conclusion and future directions.
This book examines the institutionalization of self-help in the United States using organizational and social movement theories. Looking ata fifty-year period, Archibald charts the formation and dissolution ofover 500 medical, academic, and popular organizations. He explores theways in which the marginal practices of sufferers of chronic conditions like Parkinson's or alcoholism became the common solution for all manner of medical, behavioral, and psychological problems.
Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
Mode of access:World Wide Web.
ISBN: 9780230609624
Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230609624doiSubjects--Topical Terms:
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--History.--United StatesIndex Terms--Genre/Form:
96803
Electronic books.
LC Class. No.: BF632 / .A37 2007eb
Dewey Class. No.: 361.4
National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2008 C-669
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