Alcohol, Psychiatry and Society

Introduction: comparative and transnational perspectives on alcohol, psychiatry and society, c. 1500–1991 – Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Müller 1 Corrupting the body and mind: distilled spirits, drunkenness and disease in early-modern England and the British Atlantic world – David Korostyshevsky 2 Alcoholism, degeneration, madness and psychiatry in Spain, c. 1870–1923 – Ricardo Campos 3 From nutrition to powerful agent of degeneration: alcohol in nineteenth-century Chile and Brazil – Mauricio Becerra Rebolledo 4 ‘White man’s kava’ in Fiji: entangling alcohol, race and insanity, c. 1874–1970 – Jacqueline Leckie 5 'In the hot and trying climate of Nigeria the European has a much stronger temptation to indulge in alcohol than the native': drunkenness in Nigeria, c. 1880–1940 – Simon Heap 6 Alcohol, abstinence and rationalisation in Germany, c. 1870s–1910s – Jasmin Brötz 7 'Disciples of Asclepius' or 'advocates of Hermes'? Psychiatrists and alcohol in early twentieth-century Greece – Kostis Gkotsinas 8 The fear of the immoderate Muslim: alcohol, civilisation and the theories of the École d’Alger, c. 1930–62 – Nina Saloua Studer 9 Alcoholism, family and society in post-WWII Japan – Akira Hashimoto 10 'May it last, such peace and life': treating alcoholism in Tito’s Yugoslavia, 1948–91 – Mat Savelli 11 A cradle of psychotherapy: treatment of alcohol addiction in communist Czechoslovakia, c. 1948–89 – Adéla Gjuricová 12 'A society that is sinking ever deeper into a state of chronic alcohol poisoning': medical and moral treatment of alcoholics in the Soviet Union, c. 1970–91 – Christian Werkmeister Index -- .