Routledge Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication

<p>Bringing together scholars from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences this multidisciplinary Handbook offers a comprehensive critical overview of intoxicants and intoxication.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Chapters 15 and 31 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.</p>