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Silkworth: The Little Doctor Who Loved Drunks the Biography of William Duncan Silkworth, M.D.
Silkworth The Little Doctor Who Loved Drunks the Biography of William Duncan Silkworth MD
Author: Dale Mitchel
"Alcoholism is an obsession of the mind that condemns one to drink and an allergy of the body that condemns one to die." In the 1930s, this statement by Dr. William Duncan Silkworth flew in the face of conventional wisdom that alcoholism was a moral failing. Risking his professional reputation, Dr. Silkworth articulated the medical observ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781568387949
ISBN-10: 1568387946
Publication Date: 5/10/2002
Pages: 264
Edition: illustrated edition
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Publisher: Hazelden
Book Type: Hardcover
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