HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Early Modern Europe, Substance Dependence, Alcoholism
16 Aug 2018
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This has implications for alcohol but other substances of addiction as well: alcohol has taken on a totally different character. Meanings of alcohol: socially speaking, alcohol is flexible and conveys a lot of different meanings, how we drink locates us in terms of gender, class, age, religion, ethnicity and national identity. Drinking is performative-it communicates messages to others: drinking is a potent form of communication, also read by others- styles of drinking, drinks of choice, drinking locations- all communicate personal characteristics. Key messages: group belonging, alcohol as release, alcohol as adventure. Making modern alcohol and alcoholism: key to everyday life in early modern europe, drinking was the norm, safer than consuming water. Industrial work day changed consumption patterns, rigid division between work/home/leisure. Intoxication becomes more noticeable because drunkenness is increasingly leaving the home: we begin to get the origins of drinking as a social problem.
