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Demons - Our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco, and drugs (Hardcover, New)
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Tabloid headlines attack the binge drinking of young women. Debates
about the classification of cannabis continue, while major public
health campaigns seek to reduce and ultimately eliminate smoking
through health warnings and legislation. But the history of public
health is not a simple one of changing attitudes resulting from
increased medical knowledge, though that has played a key role, for
instance since the identification of the link between smoking and
lung cancer. As Virginia Berridge shows in this fascinating
exploration, attitudes to public health, and efforts to change it,
have historically been driven by social, cultural, political, and
economic and industrial factors, as well as advances in science.
They have resulted in different responses to drugs, alcohol, and
tobacco at different times, in different parts of the world. Opium
dens in London, temperance and prohibition movements, the
appearance of new recreational drugs in the 20th century, the
changing attitudes to smoking: by taking us through such examples,
moulded by socio-economic and political forces, including the
growing power of pharmaceutical companies, Berridge illuminates
current debates. While our medical knowledge has advanced, other
factors help shape our responses, as they have done in the past.
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