Drink and the city
Subtitle: alcohol and alcohol problems in urban UK since the 1950s
By: J.E. McGregor
Publisher: Nottingham University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Nottingham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781908062857
Subjects: Drinking of alcoholic beverages; History; Alcohol Drinking; Alcoholism; Public Policy; Urban Health; Homeless Persons; Social Problems; Social conditions; Liquor laws; Alcoholic Beverages; History, 20th Century; Food Legislation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Drink and the city; title: 2. Medicine as part of social concern, 1950s & 1960s; title: 3. Medical responses to the vagrant alcoholic, 1970s; title: 4. Youth in public view, 1970s; title: 5. Combining drink and drugs: alcohol treatment in the 1980s; title: 6. Drunken yobs and aggressive beggars: the 1980s; title: 7. Politicisation and fragmentation: alcohol treatment in the 1990s; title: 8. Liberty's' and licensing: responses by the police in the 1990s; title: 9. Cldt give a 4xxxx for 1st Ordrs: the national/local problem of binge drinking; title: 10. UK alcohol policy: national-local interaction; title: Reference sources.