Alcohol Consumption and Alcoholism in Hungary : Ethnocultural, Epidemiological and Biomedical Aspects

Presents results of a German-Hungarian collaborative research program carried out during the early 1990s, exploring the epidemiological and biomedical aspects of alcohol drinking and abuse in Hungary. Reports on biochemistry, pathophysiology, psychiatry, genetics, and teratology, as well as environmental, socio-cultural, and ethnic aspects of alcohol use and abuse, and provides data on the Hungarian incidence of fetal alcohol syndrome and on alcohol-related end-organ damage. For basic scientists and physicians in alcohol research, and for health policy makers. No index. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.