Intoxication and Society: Problematic Pleasures of Drugs and by Phil Withington,Darin Weinberg,Ciaran Regan,Jonathan Herring

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By Phil Withington,Darin Weinberg,Ciaran Regan,Jonathan Herring

Intoxicants, elements that regulate a person's psychological and physiological country, are a continual obsession. of their influence at the brain and physique, intoxicants visit the center of what it capacity to be human. within the tensions among 'free' and uninhibited intake at the one hand, and the pressures of social legislation and private accountability at the different, additionally they light up the day-by-day paradoxes, and sheer complexity, of dwelling in sleek Western societies. but this complexity, and the wealthy historical past that underpins it, is frequently misplaced within the present debates over public policy.

Intoxication and Society units out to complement the modern discourse surrounding intoxication with a extra nuanced appreciation of the historical past and nature of what's greatly a multidimensional challenge. It does so via utilizing an interdisciplinary framework that incorporates contributions from top lecturers in legislation, sociology, anthropology, historical past, literature, neuroscience and social psychology.

The result's a sophisticated ancient and modern rereading of the social development of intoxication that may offer a safe foundation for research as society maintains to answer the tricky pleasures of intoxication

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