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The evolution of self-help

Archibald, Matthew.

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The evolution of self-help

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The evolution of self-help/ Matthew E. Archibald.
Author:	Archibald, Matthew.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2007.,
Description:	xiii, 187 p. :ill.
[NT 15003449]:	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.
Subject:	Self-help techniques - History. - United States -
Online resource:	http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9780230609624access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	0230609627

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: 0230609627

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230609624doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1010225
Self-help techniques
--History.--United StatesIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
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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