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Author:   Jonathan Herring (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Ciaran Regan ,  Darin Weinberg ,  Philip Withington
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Red Globe Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781137008343

ISBN 10:   1137008342
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   21 December 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction PART I: THE FORMATION OF EXPERTISE Medical Expertise and the Understandings of Intoxication in Britain 1660 to 1830 The Expertise of Non-Experts: Knowledges of Intoxication in Criminal Law Intoxicants: The Formation of Health Expertise in the Twentieth Century PART II: SPATIAL POLITICS 'The Relations of Inebriety to Insurance': Geographies of Medicine, Insurance and Alcohol in Britain 1841 1911 Alehouse Licensing and State Formation in Early Modern England PART III: CULTURE AND PRACTICE Renaissance Drinking Cultures and Popular Print On the Cultural Domestication of Intoxicants Nudge Policy, Embodiment and Intoxication Problems PART IV: INTOXICATION AND THE SELF Beastly Metamorphoses: Losing Control in Early Modern Literary Culture Intoxicants and Compulsive Behaviour A Neuroscientific Perspective Praxis, Interaction and the Loss of Self-Control PART V: LAW, MORALITY AND SCIENCE Addiction and Responsibility The Current Law of Intoxication: Rules and Problems The Addicted Self: A Neuroscientific Perspective.

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JONATHAN HERRING is Professor of Law at the University of Oxford, UK and Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford. CIARAN REGAN is Professor of Neuropharmacology at University College Dublin, Ireland and a Fellow of the UCD Conway Institute, Ireland. DARIN WEINBERG is Fellow and Director of Studies at King's College, Cambridge, UK and University Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, UK. PHILIP WITHINGTON is University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, UK and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, UK.

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