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Smashed! - The Many Meanings of Intoxication and Drunkenness (Paperback, New)
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Smashed! - The Many Meanings of Intoxication and Drunkenness (Paperback, New)
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Everyone knows what intoxication and drunkenness are, what they
look like, how to define and measure them and what their
consequences are. At least we might assume so given the ways these
words are used by the media, by politicians and policy makers and
by various medical, educational and legal experts in Australia and
around the world. A whole variety of concerns about young people,
individual and public health, road safety, sexual assault and
violence are connected to these taken-for-granted understandings of
intoxication and drunkenness. Drawing on an extensive review of
research from biomedicine, psychology, sociology and legal studies,
and from news media reporting, the authors reveal a far more
complex picture. This is a picture marked by little agreement on
how to define intoxication and drunkenness, how to measure
intoxication, what getting drunk means to those who drink
(including young people, men and women and people from different
cultural and national backgrounds), and where responsibility lies
for many of the individual, social, medical and legal consequences
of intoxication and drunkenness. Smashed! presents an overview of
the history of these concerns and an extensive account of the many
meanings of intoxication and drunkenness at the start of the 21st
century. It provides a valuable resource for researchers, policy
makers, the media and members of the community who are involved in
these ongoing, often emotive, debates.
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