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This volume represents a landmark in the important and rapidly expanding literature of cross-cultural epidemiology that has been made possible by the worldwide popularity of the DSM-III and the multi-national use of a single survey instrument: the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS). Reviewing population survey findings across ten regions of North America, Europe, and Asia, this study is the first direct cross-national comparison of personal interview data on alcoholism, including prevalence rates and risk factors. The book carefully describes the background of the various surveys and the methods of analysis and comparison. Chapters on each region describe the prevalence of drinking problems, the symptomatic expression of alcoholism in that culture, aspects of the cultural background that are relevant to drinking behavior, and the association between alcoholism and other psychiatric disorders. Of particular importance in this volume is the inclusion of a chapter on alcoholism in the Socialist Republic of China, from which very little scientific information has been readily available. The inclusion of eastern and western cultural perspectives offers insight into both universal and culturally distinct aspects of alcoholism. The volume is essential reading for psychiatrists, epidemiologists, sociologists, and alcohol theorists, researchers and clinicians.

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• Part I Introduction
• 1 Epidemiology and Cross-National Comparisons
• 2 Development of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule
• 3 Contributions of Anthropology and Sociology to Alcohol Epidemiology
• 4 Cross-Cultural Research on Alcohol: A Quoi Bon?
• 5 Recent Advances in the Investigation of the Epidemiology of Alcohol Abuse
• Part II North America
• 6 Five Communities in the United States: Results of the Epidemiological Catchment Area Survey
• 7 Alcohol Abuse and Dependence in Edmonton, Canada
• 8 Alcohol Abuse and Dependence Among American Indians
• 9 The Prevalence of Alcohol Abuse and/or Dependence in Two Hispanic Communities
• Part III Europe
• 10 Use, Abuse, and Dependence of Alcohol in West Germany: Lifetime and Six-Month Prevalence in the Munich Follow-up Study
• 11 Alcoholism, Culture, and Psychopathology: A Comparative Study of French, French-Canadian, and American Alcoholics
• Part IV Asia and the Pacific
• 12 Alcohol Abuse and Dependence in New Zealand
• 13 Alcoholism in Taiwan Chinese Communities
• 14 Alcoholism in Korea
• 15 Alcohol Use, Abuse, and Dependency in Shanghai
• Part V Conclusions
• 16 Comparative Analysis of Alcoholism in Ten Cultural Regions

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John E. Helzer is at University of Vermont. Glorisa J. Canino is at University of Puerto Rico.