Health, Harm and Risk
Health, Harm and Risk
Chapter Seven addresses alcohol and health. After outlining longer-term developments, particular attention is paid to the issues of public health and addiction in the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The emergence of an influential public health perspective on drink problems, with associated regulatory agendas such as units guidance and pricing controls, is analysed. The links between contemporary public attitudes and proposed reforms and their Victorian antecedents are explored and used to help illuminate the continuing role of medical and public health perspectives in advancing the moral regulation of alcohol. Ultimately, it is argued that these ways of thinking about alcohol reproduce a historical fusion of health and morality.
Keywords: public health, alcohol, drinking, moral regulation, pricing, units, temperance
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