Berridge Virginia (Professor Of History And Director Centre For History In Public Health London School Of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine)
Berridge Virginia (Professor Of History And Director Centre For History In Public Health London School Of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine) - Demons Our Changing Attitudes To Alcohol Tobacco And Drugs - Hardcover
Berridge Virginia (Professor Of History And Director Centre For History In Public Health London School Of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine) - Demons Our Changing Attitudes To Alcohol Tobacco And Drugs - Hardcover
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Description: 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.
Title: Demons Our Changing Attitudes To Alcohol Tobacco And Drugs
Author(s): Berridge Virginia (Professor Of History And Director Centre For History In Public Health London School Of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199604982
Pages: 304 Pages, Approx 10 Black And White Illustrations
Publication Date: 1/28/2014
Category: Popular Science
Description: 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.
Title: Demons Our Changing Attitudes To Alcohol Tobacco And Drugs
Author(s): Berridge Virginia (Professor Of History And Director Centre For History In Public Health London School Of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199604982
Pages: 304 Pages, Approx 10 Black And White Illustrations
Publication Date: 1/28/2014
Category: Popular Science
