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BOOK REVIEWS in the United States: Racial and Ethnic Considerations. Alcoholism Formu- lated the Committee on Cultural for the Ad- by Psychiatry, Group of DC: vancement American (Series No. 141). Psychiatry Washington, $26 Press, 1996, 111 (hardbound). Psychiatric pp., The central of this book was to examine the of the validity purpose held belief that alcoholism is more its social commonly prevalent, more and alcohol-related and deleterious, morbidity consequences more serious ethnic-racial minorities than among among mortality whites in the United States. Data on the four federally designated Asian Americans, Americans, Hispanic minority groups-African and Native Americans-were studied with to Americans, respect of and of rates of and trends in the use alcohol frequency drinking; alcohol-related and histories of alcohol- mortality; family morbidity ism and the effect of drinkers; among problem migration, immigra- and acculturation on the use and abuse of alcohol. The authors tion, relied on data from the mid-1980s, which, dated, heavily although made some direct more feasible, comparisons particularly among African and Americans. whites, Americans, Hispanic The for the Advancement of is to be commended Group Psychiatry for its decision to examine these issues. This Herculean task was of the and marred, however, use, abuse, by
Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work – SAGE
Published: Jul 1, 1997
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