This volume - a probing ethnographic study of the process of recovery from alcoholism - is the first sustained, in-depth analysis of the lived experiences of the recovering alcoholic. Drawing on many case studies and extensive personal experience, Denzin investigates and analyzes the phenomenology of drinking and alcoholism. He considers: the factors which make alcoholics seek treatment; the social stigmas which face the recovering alcoholic; and other difficulties which hinder the recovery process. He also outlines the ways in which groups like Alcoholics Anonymous are effective.
- ISBN10 0803927479
- ISBN13 9780803927476
- Publish Date 22 April 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 February 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 248
- Language English