Research Catalog

Title

Bacchic medicine : wine and alcohol therapies from Napoleon to the French Paradox / Harry W. Paul.

Author

Paul, Harry W.

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, c2001.

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Details

Description

vii, 341 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

In the twentieth century, many doctors rallied to the defence of wine both as a substitute for more dangerous alcoholic drinks and as an efficacious medicament, with an impressive case for the efficacy of wine in fighting bacteria, heart disease and cancer. New science based on animal models and ionic theory fortified their arguments. According to the controversial "French Paradox", wine drinking makes it possible for a population to enjoy a high fat diet yet suffer little. Bacchic Medicine also discusses the contemporary debate over the role of alcohol and wine in preventive medicine.

Series Statement

• Wellcome series in the history of medicine
• Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 64

Uniform Title

• Wellcome series in the history of medicine
• Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 64.

Alternative Title

Wine and alcohol therapies from Napoleon to the French Paradox

Subject

• Geschichte 1800-2000
• Wine > Therapeutic use
• Diet > Mediterranean Region
• Wine and wine making
• Wine > history
• Therapeutics
• Cardiovascular Diseases > diet therapy
• Antioxidants > pharmacology
• Antioxidants > pharmacokinetics

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-320) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. I. Popular and professional wine therapies -- pt. II. A remarkable nineteenth-century medicine -- pt. III. Iatrogenic tales -- pt. IV. The renaissance of wine therapy in twentieth-century French medicine -- pt. V. Medicine on the moving fringe: prevention and paradox.

ISBN

• 9042011211 (bound)
• 9042011114 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 51096163
• SCSB-10431850

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library