Alcohol can be an item of diet, a medicine, sometimes an element in religious ritual. It is a
valued object for the connoisseur, a traded commodity and a symbol of national pride (wine …

This book provides an illuminating perspective on alcohol use, drawing on approaches from
both anthropological research and historical sociology to examine our ambivalent attitudes …

In the 1960s, influenced by the single distribution of consumption model, Canadian alcohol
experts broadened their notions of alcohol problems beyond the individual “alcoholic” or …

Two main prescriptions are offered for reducing rates of alcohol problems in English-
speaking and Nordic cultures: a “dry” solution of reducing the physical and cultural …

Robin Room is vice-presidentfor research at the Addiction Research Foundation (33 Russell
St., Toronto, Onto M5S 2S1, Canada). His publications on drinking patterns and problems in …

(translated from the French by Gareth Stanton and Nick Hindley, with an introduction by Roy
Porter) From Roy Porter's introduction:Professor Sournia's history of alcoholism is …

Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity is a collaborative effort by an international group of
addiction scientists to improve the linkages between addiction science and alcohol policy. It …

This essay is framed by the work of Edward Sampson (1993), and is a sociohistorical
analysis of the institutional vicissitudes in American history that have formed the ground of …