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The Trouble with Drinking : Alcohol, Health and the Regulation of Life.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keane, Helen.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Alcohol is everywhere--in our everyday lives, in public debates and, increasingly, at the centre of public health policy.This book critically examines alcohol as a contemporary research and policy object.It argues that drinking is governed through heavily freighted concepts such as risk, wellbeing, gender and race.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Practices, Problems and Politics
- Drinking as an everyday practice
- The trouble with drinking
- Our approach
- Alcohol effects
- The biopolitics of health
- Public health and alcohol problems
- The structure of the book
- 1 Creating Certainty: The Making of Low-Risk Drinking Guidelines
- Making LRDGs
- Producing risk as fact
- The collectivity of LRDG cultures
- Assumptions about risk, alcohol and people
- Conclusion
- 2 'Alcohol's Harm to Others': Stabilizing Research Objects and Expanding Regulation
- Research on 'alcohol's harm to others'
- Causality
- The politics of simplification
- Avoiding stigma and discrimination
- Alcohol's harm to others and policy
- 3 Alcohol, Health and Wellbeing: Fear and the Imagining of Desirable Futures
- The emergence of 'digital health'
- Dry January
- Alcohol Change UK
- The Dry January campaign
- The Try Dry app
- Hello Sunday Morning
- My Drink Check
- The tension between abstinence and moderation
- The Daybreak App
- 4 Gendering Drinking: Women as Subjects of Risk and Harm
- Gender convergence and the risks of freedom and equality
- Breast cancer and the gendering of modifiable risk
- The wine mom: a modernized maternal drinking problem
- 5 Intoxication, Addiction and the Racializing Biopolitics of Alcohol
- The policing of intoxication
- Addiction, income management and the racialized governing of poverty
- Conclusion: From Certainties to Contingencies
- Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-4626-1
- OCLC:
- 1587073822
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