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alcohol, health and the regulation of life
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 -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Conclusion
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 -- Conclusion -- 5 Intoxication, Addiction and the Racializing Biopolitics of Alcohol -- The policing of intoxication -- Addiction, income management and the racialized governing of poverty -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: From Certainties to Contingencies -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- References -- Index
Helen Keane, David Moore, and Mats Ekendahl.
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Bristol : Bristol University Press,c2026