Alcohol : science, policy and public health /
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. |
| Description: | xx, 424 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9145683 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- I. Framing the issues
- 1. Historical evolution of alcohol consumption in society
- 2. Key studies of alcohol and disease
- 3. Cultural aspects: Representations of alcohol use in visual art
- 4. Cultural aspects: Illustrations of alcohol use in literature
- 5. Cultural aspects: Alcohol use in film
- 6. Sociocultural aspects of alcohol consumption
- II. Alcohol: chemistry and biology
- 7. Chemistry of alcoholic beverages
- 8. Alcohol metabolism and genetic control
- 9. Implications of the genetics of alcoholism and addictions for public policy
- 10. Pathophysiology of alcohol addiction
- 11. Opioid pharmacogenetics of alcohol addiction
- III. Patterns of consumption
- 12. Tools for estimating alcohol consumption
- 13. A global overview of alcohol consumption patterns
- 14. Impact of extreme drinking on mortality
- 15. Unrecorded alcohol consumption
- IV. Alcohol: gender and age-related issues
- 16. Adolescent and teenage drinking
- 17. Gender and alcohol: consumption and consequences
- 18. Alcohol use in the elderly
- V. Alcohol, injury, and violence
- 19. Alcohol consumption and injury
- 20. Alcohol and road traffic injury
- 21. Alcohol and suicide
- 22. Alcohol and intimate partner violence
- 23. Violence and crime
- VI. Alcohol and cancer
- 24. Alcohol and carcinogenesis: mechanisms and biomarkers
- 25. Upper aerodigestive tumours: mouth, pharynx, larynx, and oesophagus
- 26. Gastrointestinal tumours
- 27. Liver and pancreatic tumours
- 28. Alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk
- 29. Bladder and genitourinary tumours
- VII. Alcohol and non-malignant disease
- 30. Cardiac disease
- 31. Vascular disease
- 32. Benign diseases of the gastrointestinal tract
- 33. Liver disease
- 34. Pancreatitis
- 35. Diabetes
- 36. Neurological and mental disorders
- 37. Infectious disease
- 38. Alcohol and pregnancy: fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and the fetal alcohol syndrome
- VIII. Therapeutic aspects: current approaches
- 39. Screening of high-risk drinkers
- 40. Brief intervention: does it work?
- 41. Drug therapy: reviewing the evidence
- IX. Alcohol policy
- 42. The private sector and public policy: can they be reconciled?
- 43. Impact of alcohol on poverty and the need for appropriate policy
- 44. Control of alcohol availability: historical and current policies and their effects
- 45. Taxation and price control
- 46. Alcohol control measures and traffic safety
- 47. Public information and education campaigns
- 48. Public information and education campaigns
