From Science to Action? 100 Years Later — Alcohol Policies Revisited

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Müller, Richard (Editor), Klingemann, Harald (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2004.
• Subjects: Psychology.; History.; Political science.; Social sciences.; Health psychology.; Psychology, general.; Political Science.; Social Sciences, general.; Health Psychology.; History, general.

Alcohol has been central to social, religious and personal use throughout the history. Alcohol drinking goes back almost as far as the human race does. A hundred years, therefore, may be seen as only a flash. The past century, however, has witnessed a fundamental change in dealing with alcohol probl...

Table of Contents:

• International Perspective
• Alcohol Policy on the Agenda of the European Union
• From “Alcohol, Society and the State” to “Broken Spirits” to...
• Alcohol Policy and the Public Good: As Simple As One, Two, Three
• Harm Reduction: The Drugification of Alcohol Polices and the Alcoholisation of Drug Policies
• History
• From Temperence Movements to State Action: An Historical View of the Alcohol Question in Industrialised Countries
• Reducing Discursive Complexity: The Case of Alcohol Policies in Europe (1850–2000)
• Action
• Community Action From an International Perspective
• Does Price Matter? The Effect of Decreased Price on Spirits Consumption in Switzerland
• Policies and Politics in France
• Drunkenness and Preference for Spirits in Different Countries
• Towards Evidence-Based Policy
• Ethics and Politics of Policies
• What If We Found The Magic Bullet?
• Science, Public Policy and the Alcohol Industry
• 100 Years Swiss Alcohol Policy
• Swiss Alcohol Policy — “Model” or “Sonderfall”?.