LEADER 04540nam 22007215 450 001 9910720060003321 005 20230704133719.0 010 $a9783031271076$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031271069 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-27107-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7242945 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7242945 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-27107-6 035 $a(OCoLC)1378393955 035 $a(CKB)26540735900041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926540735900041 100 $a20230428d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlcohol and Liver Cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain /$fby Ryosuke Yokoe 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (281 pages) 225 1 $aMedicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History,$x2947-9150 311 08$aPrint version: Yokoe, Ryosuke Alcohol and Liver Cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031271069 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Alcohol and the Liver in Edwardian Britain -- 3. New Moderationism and the Liver in Interwar Britain -- 4. Cirrhosis as a Nutritional Disorder -- 5. Alcoholic Cirrhosis in the Late Twentieth Century -- 6. Conclusion. 330 $aThe relationship between alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis has long been contested by doctors and medical professionals, creating numerous implications for the public reputation of alcohol in Britain. Despite this, it was not until the 1970s that cirrhosis came to be understood as an ?alcoholic disease?. This book contextualises developments in this debate through the twentieth century by examining the significant influence that medical expertise had on policy responses to alcohol misuse, as well as the social reputation of alcohol consumption. It demonstrates how the degree to which drinking was seen to be responsible for liver disease directly shaped how different groups, such as the temperance movement and the drinks industry, exaggerated or downplayed the destructive properties of alcohol. Covering a series of themes including the science of disease causation, the social standing of medical expertise, and alcohol and public health policy, this book argues that in order to properly understand the trajectory of debates around drinking we need to consider the twentieth-century ?alcohol problem? as primarily a medical issue. Contrary to the tendency by existing works to disassociate perceptions and responses to alcohol use from the objective knowledge of its effects on the body, this book shows that medical understandings of liver disease influenced how alcohol was conceptualised in relation to its harms. Offering a fresh perspective on the interaction between scientific knowledge and policy during the twentieth century, this book provides insights for those researching the social, political and cultural history of modern Britain, as well as historians of medicine and health. Ryosuke Yokoe is a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow based in the Graduate School of Economics at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is a historian of medicine and previously studied and taught at the University of Sheffield in the UK. 410 0$aMedicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History,$x2947-9150 606 $aGreat Britain?History 606 $aScience?History 606 $aMedicine?History 606 $aHistory, Modern 606 $aWorld politics 606 $aSocial history 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland 606 $aHistory of Science 606 $aHistory of Medicine 606 $aModern History 606 $aPolitical History 606 $aSocial History 615 0$aGreat Britain?History. 615 0$aScience?History. 615 0$aMedicine?History. 615 0$aHistory, Modern. 615 0$aWorld politics. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 14$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aHistory of Medicine. 615 24$aModern History. 615 24$aPolitical History. 615 24$aSocial History. 676 $a941 700 $aYokoe$b Ryosuke$01356610 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910720060003321 996 $aAlcohol and Liver Cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain$93361275 997 $aUNINA