The Evolution of Self-Help

The Evolution of Self-Help

How a Health Movement Became an Institution

by M. Archibald

187 pages· 2007· ISBN 9780230609624
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This book examines the institutionalization of self-help in the United States using organizational and social movement theories. Looking at a fifty-year period, Archibald charts the formation and dissolution of over 500 medical, academic, and popular organizations. He explores the ways in which the marginal practices of sufferers of chronic conditions like Parkinson's or alcoholism became the common solution for all manner of medical, behavioural, and psychological problems.

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