Intoxication and Society (eBook, PDF)

Problematic Pleasures of Drugs and Alcohol
Redaktion: Herring, Jonathan; Withington, Philip; Weinberg, Darin; Regan, Ciaran

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Alcohol and illicit drugs play a prominent role in our society. This important collection looks back on their history and uses cutting edge sociological, scientific, legal and ethical analysis to seek to respond to the problematic pleasures they create.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137008336
• Artikelnr.: 62717087

Autorenporträt

JONATHAN HERRING is Professor of Law at the University of Oxford, UK and Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford. CIARAN REGAN is Professor of Neuropharmacology at University College Dublin, Ireland and a Fellow of the UCD Conway Institute, Ireland. DARIN WEINBERG is Fellow and Director of Studies at King's College, Cambridge, UK and University Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, UK. PHILIP WITHINGTON is University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, UK and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- PART I: THE FORMATION OF EXPERTISE.- Medical Expertise and the Understandings of Intoxication in Britain 1660 to 1830.- The Expertise of Non-Experts: Knowledges of Intoxication in Criminal Law.- Intoxicants: The Formation of Health Expertise in the Twentieth Century.- PART II: SPATIAL POLITICS.- 'The Relations of Inebriety to Insurance': Geographies of Medicine, Insurance and Alcohol in Britain 1841 1911.- Alehouse Licensing and State Formation in Early Modern England.- PART III: CULTURE AND PRACTICE.- Renaissance Drinking Cultures and Popular Print.- On the Cultural Domestication of Intoxicants.- Nudge Policy, Embodiment and Intoxication Problems.- PART IV: INTOXICATION AND THE SELF.- Beastly Metamorphoses: Losing Control in Early Modern Literary Culture.- Intoxicants and Compulsive Behaviour A Neuroscientific Perspective.- Praxis, Interaction and the Loss of Self-Control.- PART V: LAW, MORALITY AND SCIENCE.- Addiction and Responsibility.- The Current Law of Intoxication: Rules and Problems.- The Addicted Self: A Neuroscientific Perspective.