Summary
Contents
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With contributions from leading international academics across the social sciences, this accessible takes a critical look at the key contemporary issues and debates in the field. The 39 chapters are divided into three parts: Part I Central Social Science Theories Drug and Alcohol Studies Part II Pillars in Social Science Drug and Alcohol Studies Part III Controversies and New Approaches in Social Science Drug and Alcohol Studies This Handbook is an excellent reference text for the growing number of academics, students, scientists and practitioners in the drug and alcohol studies community.
Historical Perspectives
Historical Perspectives
Introduction
There is now a considerable literature on the history of alcohol and drugs. The past two decades have seen an ever-increasing interest in these subjects on the part of historians, in large part due to insights from other fields in the social sciences being adopted by historians and applied to their own field. Historians were once happy to cursorily conclude that levels of alcohol and drug consumption in the past were straightforward responses to economic hardship and social dislocation. They have now learned from an engagement with anthropology and sociology that the rituals, symbols and debates that surrounded the use of alcohol and drugs in past societies can offer a guide to the underlying social, cultural and political structures of ...
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