Keane / Moore / Ekendahl The Trouble with Drinking

Alcohol, Health and the Regulation of Life
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4625-4
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keane, Helen

Moore, David

Ekendahl, Mats

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Practices, Problems and Politics

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ekendahl, Mats
Mats Ekendahl is Professor of Social Work at Stockholm University.

Keane, Helen
Helen Keane is Professor of Sociology at the Australian National University.

Moore, David
David Moore is Honorary Professor of Sociology at The Australian National University.

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.