HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Price Controls, Neoliberalism, Binge Drinking
20 Nov 2018
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Alcoholism as disease: those diagnosed as alcoholics typically belong to groups believed to suffer from poor willpower in the first place, already thought to have problems with self-control, although disease model emerged, moral aspect didn"t disappear. The 13th step: feminist perspective, wait until told to act and then just to please others, 13: women feel prayed upon while vulnerable, disease concept shifts focus away from structural issues. And yet: despite efforts at control, drinking widespread - all social classes, all genders, spans ages, perhaps never more popular - expansion of microbreweries/distilleries, suceptiblilty rather than exposure. Consumption and culture: styles of drinking linked to culture, shots vs sipped, drunken comportment: drunken behaviour corresponds to socio-cultural expectations. In some cultures, behavioral change is great, time out from normalcy, allows otherwise inexcusable behaviour: e. g. Britain business men dressed in suits passed out drunk in the streets. French/french canadians: californians more likely to see drunk driving as indicator as alcoholism.
