
Alcohol: The Prevention Debate
The Prevention Debate
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. December 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
206 pages
978-1-032-63992-5 (ISBN)
Description
In the early 1980s, emphasis had shifted from the treatment of alcohol problems to their prevention. Yet no clear integrated policy yet existed about how alcohol problems could best be prevented. Many different strategies were put forward as solutions but some were in competition with each other, while some were actually incompatible.
Originally published in 1983, what this book does is to draw together a cross section of these different and competing voices so as to give a sense of the quality and direction of the great alcohol debate at the time. After setting into context some of the basic questions to do with the prevention of alcohol problems, the authors knit together and juxtapose short contributions from a very wide variety of experts from around the world. Clinicians, educators, sociologists, advertisers, marketing men, economists, philosophers, geneticists and international civil servants present different points of view on health education, the media, advertising, trade, the law, the environment and on the ethical basis of the debate itself. The authors bravely attempt to pull some general sense out of this profusion of what the way ahead is likely to be.
It should be noted that this reissue very much reflects the context of the times in which it was written and that the contributors were participating in a debate where differences of opinion were actively encouraged.
Originally published in 1983, what this book does is to draw together a cross section of these different and competing voices so as to give a sense of the quality and direction of the great alcohol debate at the time. After setting into context some of the basic questions to do with the prevention of alcohol problems, the authors knit together and juxtapose short contributions from a very wide variety of experts from around the world. Clinicians, educators, sociologists, advertisers, marketing men, economists, philosophers, geneticists and international civil servants present different points of view on health education, the media, advertising, trade, the law, the environment and on the ethical basis of the debate itself. The authors bravely attempt to pull some general sense out of this profusion of what the way ahead is likely to be.
It should be noted that this reissue very much reflects the context of the times in which it was written and that the contributors were participating in a debate where differences of opinion were actively encouraged.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
288 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-63992-5 (9781032639925)
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Marcus Grant | Bruce Ritson
Alcohol: The Prevention Debate
E-Book
12/2023
1st Edition
Taylor & Francis
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Marcus Grant | Bruce Ritson
Alcohol: The Prevention Debate
E-Book
12/2023
1st Edition
Taylor & Francis
€39.49
Available for download
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Content
List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Why is Alcohol a Problem? 2. What Problems are Preventable? 3. What Can Be Achieved Through Prohibition? 4. What Can Be Achieved Through Treatment? 5. What Can Be Done to Influence Children and Adolescents? 6. What Can Be Done to Influence Adults? 7. How Far Can Social, Political and Economic Factors Influence Drinking? 8. What State of Which Art? 9. The Schools Education Debate 10. The Health Education Debate 11. The Media Debate 12. The Advertising Debate 13. The Trade Debate 14. The Environment Debate 15. The Fiscal and Legislative Debate 16. The Ethical Debate 17. The Way Ahead. References. Index.