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Drinking Patterns and Alcoholism in the Chinese
Author(s) -
Singer K.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
british journal of addiction to alcohol and other drugs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0007-0890
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1972.tb01162.x
Subject(s) - expatriate , psychology , psychiatry , scarcity , perspective (graphical) , etiology , china , medicine , political science , economics , artificial intelligence , computer science , law , microeconomics
Summary Studies of alcoholism have beta carried out moody in western countries where its problems are not necessarily the same as those in other countries. There is need for international study of the concept and problems of alcoholism to identify universal features and to view the subject in better perspective. As regards the Chinese there is a scarcity of studies of drinking patterns and these are confined to the Chinese overseas. Apart from a report on 2 cases of alcoholism in a Chinatown 11 there is, so far as I can trace, no clinical study on alcoholism and no study on alcoholic psychosis. Most of the literature is impressionistic and anecdotal. The assumption is that although the Chinese drink a fair amount alcoholism is rare, an assumption which with its implications for etiology would apply only to expatriate Chinese and needs to be examined for the Chinese as a whole. It is therefore thought worthwhile to delineate certain aspects of the uses and problems of alcohol in the Chinese people of Hong Kong.