The Trouble with Drinking
Alcohol, Health and the Regulation of Life
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2026
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-4623-0 (ISBN)
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-4623-0 (ISBN)
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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. The authors interrogate dominant disciplinary sobriety and moderation frameworks, highlighting the overlooked aspects of sociability, pleasure and self-transformation.
In scrutinizing the intensifying public health spotlight on alcohol, the authors issue a call to rethink what it means to live “well” in an era when health is both a personal imperative and a regulatory discourse.
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. The authors interrogate dominant disciplinary sobriety and moderation frameworks, highlighting the overlooked aspects of sociability, pleasure and self-transformation.
In scrutinizing the intensifying public health spotlight on alcohol, the authors issue a call to rethink what it means to live “well” in an era when health is both a personal imperative and a regulatory discourse.
Helen Keane is Professor of Sociology at The Australian National University. David Moore is Honorary Professor of Sociology at The Australian National University. Mats Ekendahl is Professor of Social Work at Stockholm University.
Introduction
1. Creating Certainty: The Making of Low-Risk Drinking Guidelines
2. ‘Alcohol’s Harm to Others’: Stabilizing Research Objects and Expanding Regulation
3. Alcohol, Health and Wellbeing: Fear and the Imagining of Desirable Futures
4. Gendering Drinking: Women as Subjects of Risk and Harm
5. Intoxication, Addiction and the Racializing Biopolitics of Alcohol
Conclusion: From Certainties to Contingencies
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Not illustrated |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5292-4623-7 / 1529246237 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5292-4623-0 / 9781529246230 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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