[Reversal in the French sociocultural environment of the meaning of the term alcoholic in men].
Are analysed the factors of appearition with the first industrial revolution of the chronic alcoholism described by Magnus Hess in 1849. In France where table wine was the usual drink its links with the consequences of addiction were totally occulted while in Anglo-Saxon countries alcohol was used for its psychotropic effects. The evolution of the mind in France to the knowledge of addiction is related.
Hillemand
Bernard
B
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000266:history; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D012961:Sociology; D009626:Terminology as Topic