Alcohol

Herausgeber: Boyle, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written by international leaders in the field of alcoholism, this book provides an interdisciplinary source of information on alcoholism that links together science, policy, and public health in order to emphasise the importance of scientific knowledge with deciding public health policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 168mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1021g
• ISBN-13: 9780199655786
• ISBN-10: 0199655782
• Artikelnr.: 47866510

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgements
* Contributors
* I. Framing the issues
* 1: David J. Hanson: Historical evolution of alcohol consumption in
society
* 2: Jürgen Rehm and Kevin Shield: Key studies of alcohol and disease
* 3: James C. Harris: Cultural aspects: Representations of alcohol use
in visual art
* 4: Anya Taylor: Cultural aspects: Illustrations of alcohol use in
literature
* 5: Judy Cornes: Cultural aspects: Alcohol use in film
* 6: Robin Room: Sociocultural aspects of alcohol consumption
* II. Alcohol: chemistry and biology
* 7: Laurence I. Peterson: Chemistry of alcoholic beverages
* 8: Philip J. Brooks and Samir Zakhari: Alcohol metabolism and genetic
control
* 9: David Goldman: Implications of the genetics of alcoholism and
addictions for public policy
* 10: Wolfgang H. Sommer: Pathophysiology of alcohol addiction
* 11: Wade Berrettini and Karl E. Rickels: Opioid pharmacogenetics of
alcohol addiction
* III. Patterns of consumption
* 12: Gerhard Gmel, Kevin Shield, and Jürgen Rehm: Tools for estimating
alcohol consumption
* 13: Gerhard Gmel, Florian Labhart, Kevin Shield, Marg Rylett, Dirk
Lachenmeier, and Jürgen Rehm: A global overview of alcohol
consumption patterns
* 14: David Zaridze: Impact of extreme drinking on mortality
* 15: Dirk W. Lachenmeier, Gerhard Gmel, and Jürgen Rehm: Unrecorded
alcohol consumption
* IV. Alcohol: gender and age-related issues
* 16: Ralph W. Hingson and Aaron M. White: Adolescent and teenage
drinking
* 17: Richard W. Wilsnack and Sharon C. Wilsnack: Gender and alcohol:
consumption and consequences
* 18: Jennifer G. Plebani, David W. Oslin, and Adam B. Lipson: Alcohol
use in the elderly
* V. Alcohol, injury, and violence
* 19: Scott Macdonald, Alissa Greer, Jeff Brubacher, Cheryl Cherpitel,
Tim Stockwell, and Corneilia Zeisser: Alcohol consumption and injury
* 20: James C. Fell and Robert B. Voas: Alcohol and road traffic injury
* 21: Alex E. Crosby, Victoria Espitia-Hardeman, LaVonne Ortega, and
Briana Lozano: Alcohol and suicide
* 22: Megan R. Gerber: Alcohol and intimate partner violence
* 23: Stephen K. Talpins, Robyn Robertson, Erin Holmes, and Matthew
Dunagan: Violence and crime
* VI. Alcohol and cancer
* 24: CJ Peter Eriksson: Alcohol and carcinogenesis: mechanisms and
biomarkers
* 25: Mia Hashibe, Binh Y. Goldstein, Lin Cai, and Zuo-Feng Zhang:
Upper aerodigestive tumours: mouth, pharynx, larynx, and oesophagus
* 26: David Zaridze: Gastrointestinal tumours
* 27: Patrick Maisonneuve: Liver and pancreatic tumours
* 28: Peter Boyle: Alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk
* 29: Claudio Pelucchi and Carlotta Galeone: Bladder and genitourinary
tumours
* VII. Alcohol and non-malignant disease
* 30: William H. Frishman: Cardiac disease
* 31: Kenneth J. Mukamal: Vascular disease
* 32: Julia B. Greer and Dhiraj Yadav: Benign diseases of the
gastrointestinal tract
* 33: Michael H. Miller, Frank Sullivan, and John F. Dillon: Liver
disease
* 34: Dhiraj Yadav: Pancreatitis
* 35: Dolly Baliunas: Diabetes
* 36: Tarakad S. Ramachandran: Neurological and mental disorders
* 37: Andriy V.Samokhvalov, Paul A. Shuper, and Jürgen Rehm: Infectious
disease
* 38: Kenneth R. Warren and Margaret M. Murray: Alcohol and pregnancy:
fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and the fetal alcohol syndrome
* VIII. Therapeutic aspects: current approaches
* 39: Amy O'Donnell and Eileen Kaner: Screening of high-risk drinkers
* 40: Eileen Kaner and Amy O'Donnell: Brief intervention: does it work?
* 41: Michael Soyka: Drug therapy: reviewing the evidence
* IX. Alcohol policy
* 42: Paul Miller and Marjana Martinic: 1. The private sector and
public policy: can they be reconciled?
* 43: Aneel Karnani: Impact of alcohol on poverty and the need for
appropriate policy
* 44: Esa Österberg: Control of alcohol availability: historical and
current policies and their effects
* 45: Michael Livingston: Taxation and price control
* 46: Christine M. Wickens, Robert E. Mann, Gina Stoduto, Rosely
Flam-Zalcman, and Jennifer Butters: Alcohol control measures and
traffic safety
* 47: Claire Wilkinson: Public information and education campaigns
* 48: Harry Burns: Public information and education campaigns