Alcohol : the ambiguous molecule
著者
書誌事項
Alcohol : the ambiguous molecule
（Penguin books）
Penguin, 2000
大学図書館所蔵 全4件
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Alcohol can be an item of diet, a medicine, sometimes an element in religious ritual. It is a valued object for the connoisseur, a traded commodity and a symbol of national pride (wine for instance in France, whisky in Scotland). But at another level it is just a molecule. That molecule is an instrument both of pleasure and of destruction and hence the fundamental ambiguity. The range of social and medical problems associated with alcohol and the history of related treatment methods (including the temperance movement, prohibition, aa and a range of contemporary approaches) are considered here. Griffith Edwards identifies what can be learned from this experience and the accompanying science so as to set more rational and effective policies in the future. What will happen about alcohol is in part embedded in what society will do about dangerous, pleasure giving drugs in general.
目次
- Alcohol, what is it?
- alcohol, myths and metaphors
- a short histry of drunkeness
- Thomas Nashe's menagerie
- alcohol is a drug of dependence
- the American prohibition experiment
- calling alcoholism a disease
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- in the name of treatment
- the mysterious essences of treatment
- once an alcoholic ...
- molecule as medicine
- the drinker's dilemma
- ambiguous futures.
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