Alcohol and Liver Cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain

Ryosuke Yokoe is a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow based in the Graduate School of Economics at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is a historian of medicine and previously studied and taught at the University of Sheffield in the UK.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Alcohol and the Liver in Edwardian Britain.- 3. New Moderationism and the Liver in Interwar Britain.- 4. Cirrhosis as a Nutritional Disorder.- 5. Alcoholic Cirrhosis in the Late Twentieth Century.- 6. Conclusion.

“The book is well written, and the arguments are well supported and illustrated. … the work will appeal to social scientists, particularly those interested in stakeholders as policy actors and those interested in how research evidence is received and used by different social groups. It is recommended as a valuable contribution to existing historical accounts.” (Betsy Thom, The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, Vol, 38 (2), 2024)