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Alcohol and liver cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Alcohol and liver cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britainby Ryosuke Yokoe.
Author:	Yokoe, Ryosuke.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023.
Description:	xiii, 276 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Drinking of alcoholic beveragesHistory.Great Britain
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27107-6
ISBN:	9783031271076$q(electronic bk.)

Alcohol and liver cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain
Yokoe, Ryosuke.

Alcohol and liver cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain[electronic resource] /by Ryosuke Yokoe. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023. - xiii, 276 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history,2947-9150. - Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history..

1. Introduction -- 2. Alcohol and the Liver in Edwardian Britain -- 3. New Moderationism and the Liver in Interwar Britain -- 4. Cirrhosis as a Nutritional Disorder -- 5. Alcoholic Cirrhosis in the Late Twentieth Century -- 6. Conclusion.

The relationship between alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis has long been contested by doctors and medical professionals, creating numerous implications for the public reputation of alcohol in Britain. Despite this, it was not until the 1970s that cirrhosis came to be understood as an 'alcoholic disease'. This book contextualises developments in this debate through the twentieth century by examining the significant influence that medical expertise had on policy responses to alcohol misuse, as well as the social reputation of alcohol consumption. It demonstrates how the degree to which drinking was seen to be responsible for liver disease directly shaped how different groups, such as the temperance movement and the drinks industry, exaggerated or downplayed the destructive properties of alcohol. Covering a series of themes including the science of disease causation, the social standing of medical expertise, and alcohol and public health policy, this book argues that in order to properly understand the trajectory of debates around drinking we need to consider the twentieth-century 'alcohol problem' as primarily a medical issue. Contrary to the tendency by existing works to disassociate perceptions and responses to alcohol use from the objective knowledge of its effects on the body, this book shows that medical understandings of liver disease influenced how alcohol was conceptualised in relation to its harms. Offering a fresh perspective on the interaction between scientific knowledge and policy during the twentieth century, this book provides insights for those researching the social, political and cultural history of modern Britain, as well as historians of medicine and health. Ryosuke Yokoe is a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow based in the Graduate School of Economics at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is a historian of medicine and previously studied and taught at the University of Sheffield in the UK.

ISBN: 9783031271076$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-27107-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

950704
Drinking of alcoholic beverages
--History.--Great Britain

LC Class. No.: HV5020 / .Y65 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 362.2920941

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