Diseases of the Will Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom [Paperback]

A history of the pleasures and dangers of alcoholic beverages, exploring ideas of free will versus determinism.This broad-ranging and innovative investigation explores the ways in which both authorities and individual consumers have defined and managed the pleasures and dangers of alcoholic beverages. She explores the question of free will versus determinism and how it has been challenged by ideas about addiction, morality and psychology during the last 150 years. This book is based on years of original research and draws on sources from the US, UK, Canada and elsewhere and will appeal to readers in legal studies, addiction studies, criminology, sociology and psychology.This broad-ranging and innovative investigation explores the ways in which both authorities and individual consumers have defined and managed the pleasures and dangers of alcoholic beverages. She explores the question of free will versus determinism and how it has been challenged by ideas about addiction, morality and psychology during the last 150 years. This book is based on years of original research and draws on sources from the US, UK, Canada and elsewhere and will appeal to readers in legal studies, addiction studies, criminology, sociology and psychology.This broad-ranging and innovative investigation explores the ways in which both authorities and individual consumers have defined and managed the pleasures and dangers of alcoholic beverages. It explores the question of free will versus determinism and how it has been challenged by ideas about addiction, morality and psychology during the past 150 years. This book is based on years of original research and draws on sources from the United States, UK, Canada and elsewhere and will appeal to readers in legal studies, addiction studies, criminology, sociology and psychology.Introduction; 1. Disease or habit? Alcoholism and the exercise of freedom; 2. Repairing diseased wills: Victorian science and pastoral medicine before 'alcoholism'; 3. The fral“O