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Virginia Berridge

Demons

Our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco, and drugs

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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 lungcancer. 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… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-166838-8
  • EAN: 9780191668388
  • Produktnummer: 16978416
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'453 KB
  • Abbildungen: Approx 10 black and white illustrations

Über den Autor


Virginia Berridge is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. She has published widely on the history of illicit drugs, smoking, and alcohol and has worked in both historical and non-historical settings.

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