Alcohol, Psychiatry and Society Comparative and Transnational Perspectives, c. 1700–1990s
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Waltraud Ernst is Professor Emerita in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University
Thomas Müller is Professor in the History and Ethics of Medicine at Ulm University
<p>'[Chapters] are rich in detail as well as firmly set within their wider, global developments in medical theories and practices, and locality-specific economic policies and political ideology... The book is aimed at students at postgraduate level, mental health service workers and academics in a variety of disciplines such as history (including history of medicine, history of science, and history of colonialism), social geography, medical anthropology, health studies, psychiatry and medicine.'<br /><b>Social History Society</b></p>
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The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of alcohol and drinking. This book maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon. Emphasising medical attitudes and theories regarding alcohol and the changing perception of alcohol consumption in psychiatry and mental health, it explores the shift from the use of alcohol in clinical treatment and as part of dietary regimens to the emergence of alcoholism as a disease category that requires medical intervention and is considered a threat to public health.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
Introduction: comparative and transnational perspectives on alcohol, psychiatry and society, c. 1500–1991 – Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Müller
1 Corrupting the body and mind: distilled spirits, drunkenness and disease in early-modern England and the British Atlantic world – David Korostyshevsky
2 Alcoholism, degeneration, madness and psychiatry in Spain, c. 1870–1923 – Ricardo Campos
3 From nutrition to powerful agent of degeneration: alcohol in nineteenth-century Chile and Brazil – Mauricio Becerra Rebolledo
4 ‘White man’s kava’ in Fiji: entangling alcohol, race and insanity, c. 1874–1970 – Jacqueline Leckie
5 'In the hot and trying climate of Nigeria the European has a much stronger temptation to indulge in alcohol than the native': drunkenness in Nigeria, c. 1880–1940 – Simon Heap
6 Alcohol, abstinence and rationalisation in Germany, c. 1870s–1910s – Jasmin Brötz
7 'Disciples of Asclepius' or 'advocates of Hermes'? Psychiatrists and alcohol in early twentieth-century Greece – Kostis Gkotsinas
8 The fear of the immoderate Muslim: alcohol, civilisation and the theories of the École d’Alger, c. 1930–62 – Nina Saloua Studer
9 Alcoholism, family and society in post-WWII Japan – Akira Hashimoto
10 'May it last, such peace and life': treating alcoholism in Tito’s Yugoslavia, 1948–91 – Mat Savelli
11 A cradle of psychotherapy: treatment of alcohol addiction in communist Czechoslovakia, c. 1948–89 – Adéla Gjuricová
12 'A society that is sinking ever deeper into a state of chronic alcohol poisoning': medical and moral treatment of alcoholics in the Soviet Union, c. 1970–91 – Christian Werkmeister
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Alcohol, psychiatry and society addresses one of the central debates in the history of alcohol and intoxication: the supposed ‘medicalisation’ of alcohol use from the nineteenth century onwards.
Arguing that the concept of medicalisation needs to be more closely interrogated, the volume tracks the shift from the use of alcohol in clinical treatments, dietary regimens and as a work incentive to the emergence of ‘alcoholism’ as a disease category requiring medical intervention. Contributors demonstrate the complexities of medicalisation in practice: limited funding, state control of healthcare, ideological constraints and tensions between legislation and traditional cultural practices. At the same time, they call attention to the many challenges that historians face when they set out to explore the relationship between medicine and alcohol.
Looking beyond Europe and the US, Alcohol, psychiatry and society features case studies from Brazil, Chile, Nigeria, Algeria, Fiji, Japan and more. At the same time, it focuses on a consistent set of themes: definition and diagnosis, the links between alcohol and crime, the rhetoric of social/economic degeneration, the impact of colonialism and the role of families in alcohol treatment.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Waltraud Ernst is Professor Emerita in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University
Thomas Müller is Professor in the History and Ethics of Medicine at Ulm University