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The trouble with drinking: alcohol, health and the regulation of life /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Keane, Helen, 1964- (Author), Moore, David (Author), Ekendahl, Mats (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
Subjects:
Drinking of alcoholic beverages > Health aspects.
Alcohol > Health aspects.
Alcohol > Physiological effect.
Alcoholism counseling > Great Britain.
Alcohol > Law and legislation > Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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
  • 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