03012namaa2200589uu 4500 oapen63215 oapen 20251217011854.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240424s2023a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 9780367178703 9780429058141 9781032321486 10.4324/9780429058141 doi oapen oapen eng dc J thema JB thema JH thema JHB thema Antin, Tamar M.J. aut Routledge Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2023 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star Bringing together scholars from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, this multidisciplinary Handbook offers a comprehensive critical overview of intoxicants and intoxication. The Handbook is divided into 34 chapters across eight thematic sections covering a wide range of issues, including the meanings of intoxicants; the social life of intoxicants; intoxication settings; intoxication practices; alternative approaches to the study of intoxication; scapegoated intoxicants; discourses shaping intoxication; and changing notions of excess. It explores a range of different intoxicants, including alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea, and legal and illicit drugs, including amphetamine, cannabis, ecstasy, khat, methadone, and opiates. Chapter length case studies explore these intoxicants in a variety of countries, including the USA, the UK, Australia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Denmark, Ireland, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Singapore, and Sweden, across a broad timespan covering the nineteenth century to the present day. This wide-ranging Handbook will be of great interest to researchers, students, and instructors within the humanities and social sciences with an interest in a wide range of different intoxicants and different intoxication practices. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng Society and culture: general thema Society and Social Sciences thema Sociology and anthropology thema Sociology thema Alcohol Alcoholism Coffee Drugs Intoxicants Intoxication Public Health Sociology of Drugs Tea Antin, Tamar M.J. edt Frank, Vibeke Asmussen edt Hunt, Geoffrey edt OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63215 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 37341 37341