Waltraud Ernst is Professor Emerita in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes UniversityThomas Müller is Professor in the History and Ethics of Medicine at Ulm University

• Introduction: comparative and transnational perspectives on alcohol, psychiatry and society, c. 1500–1991 – Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Müller 1 Corrupting the body and mind: distilled spirits, drunkenness and disease in early-modern England and the British Atlantic world – David Korostyshevsky 2 Alcoholism, degeneration, madness and psychiatry in Spain, c. 1870–1923 – Ricardo Campos3 From nutrition to powerful agent of degeneration: alcohol in nineteenth-century Chile and Brazil – Mauricio Becerra Rebolledo4 ‘White man’s kava’ in Fiji: entangling alcohol, race and insanity, c. 1874–1970 – Jacqueline Leckie 5 'In the hot and trying climate of Nigeria the European has a much stronger temptation to indulge in alcohol than the native': drunkenness in Nigeria, c. 1880–1940 – Simon Heap 6 Alcohol, abstinence and rationalisation in Germany, c. 1870s–1910s – Jasmin Brötz 7 'Disciples of Asclepius' or 'advocates of Hermes'? Psychiatrists and alcohol in early twentieth-century Greece – Kostis Gkotsinas8 The fear of the immoderate Muslim: alcohol, civilisation and the theories of the École d’Alger, c. 1930–62 – Nina Saloua Studer 9 Alcoholism, family and society in post-WWII Japan – Akira Hashimoto 10 'May it last, such peace and life': treating alcoholism in Tito’s Yugoslavia, 1948–91 – Mat Savelli11 A cradle of psychotherapy: treatment of alcohol addiction in communist Czechoslovakia, c. 1948–89 – Adéla Gjuricová 12 'A society that is sinking ever deeper into a state of chronic alcohol poisoning': medical and moral treatment of alcoholics in the Soviet Union, c. 1970–91 – Christian Werkmeister Index

'[Chapters] are rich in detail as well as firmly set within their wider, global developments in medical theories and practices, and locality-specific economic policies and political ideology... The book is aimed at students at postgraduate level, mental health service workers and academics in a variety of disciplines such as history (including history of medicine, history of science, and history of colonialism), social geography, medical anthropology, health studies, psychiatry and medicine.'Social History Society

Waltraud Ernst is Professor Emerita in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes UniversityThomas Müller is Professor in the History and Ethics of Medicine at Ulm University

• Introduction: comparative and transnational perspectives on alcohol, psychiatry and society, c. 1500–1991 – Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Müller 1 Corrupting the body and mind: distilled spirits, drunkenness and disease in early-modern England and the British Atlantic world – David Korostyshevsky 2 Alcoholism, degeneration, madness and psychiatry in Spain, c. 1870–1923 – Ricardo Campos3 From nutrition to powerful agent of degeneration: alcohol in nineteenth-century Chile and Brazil – Mauricio Becerra Rebolledo4 ‘White man’s kava’ in Fiji: entangling alcohol, race and insanity, c. 1874–1970 – Jacqueline Leckie 5 'In the hot and trying climate of Nigeria the European has a much stronger temptation to indulge in alcohol than the native': drunkenness in Nigeria, c. 1880–1940 – Simon Heap 6 Alcohol, abstinence and rationalisation in Germany, c. 1870s–1910s – Jasmin Brötz 7 'Disciples of Asclepius' or 'advocates of Hermes'? Psychiatrists and alcohol in early twentieth-century Greece – Kostis Gkotsinas8 The fear of the immoderate Muslim: alcohol, civilisation and the theories of the École d’Alger, c. 1930–62 – Nina Saloua Studer 9 Alcoholism, family and society in post-WWII Japan – Akira Hashimoto 10 'May it last, such peace and life': treating alcoholism in Tito’s Yugoslavia, 1948–91 – Mat Savelli11 A cradle of psychotherapy: treatment of alcohol addiction in communist Czechoslovakia, c. 1948–89 – Adéla Gjuricová 12 'A society that is sinking ever deeper into a state of chronic alcohol poisoning': medical and moral treatment of alcoholics in the Soviet Union, c. 1970–91 – Christian Werkmeister Index

'[Chapters] are rich in detail as well as firmly set within their wider, global developments in medical theories and practices, and locality-specific economic policies and political ideology... The book is aimed at students at postgraduate level, mental health service workers and academics in a variety of disciplines such as history (including history of medicine, history of science, and history of colonialism), social geography, medical anthropology, health studies, psychiatry and medicine.'Social History Society

Waltraud Ernst is Professor Emerita in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes UniversityThomas Müller is Professor in the History and Ethics of Medicine at Ulm University

• Introduction: comparative and transnational perspectives on alcohol, psychiatry and society, c. 1500–1991 – Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Müller 1 Corrupting the body and mind: distilled spirits, drunkenness and disease in early-modern England and the British Atlantic world – David Korostyshevsky 2 Alcoholism, degeneration, madness and psychiatry in Spain, c. 1870–1923 – Ricardo Campos3 From nutrition to powerful agent of degeneration: alcohol in nineteenth-century Chile and Brazil – Mauricio Becerra Rebolledo4 ‘White man’s kava’ in Fiji: entangling alcohol, race and insanity, c. 1874–1970 – Jacqueline Leckie 5 'In the hot and trying climate of Nigeria the European has a much stronger temptation to indulge in alcohol than the native': drunkenness in Nigeria, c. 1880–1940 – Simon Heap 6 Alcohol, abstinence and rationalisation in Germany, c. 1870s–1910s – Jasmin Brötz 7 'Disciples of Asclepius' or 'advocates of Hermes'? Psychiatrists and alcohol in early twentieth-century Greece – Kostis Gkotsinas8 The fear of the immoderate Muslim: alcohol, civilisation and the theories of the École d’Alger, c. 1930–62 – Nina Saloua Studer 9 Alcoholism, family and society in post-WWII Japan – Akira Hashimoto 10 'May it last, such peace and life': treating alcoholism in Tito’s Yugoslavia, 1948–91 – Mat Savelli11 A cradle of psychotherapy: treatment of alcohol addiction in communist Czechoslovakia, c. 1948–89 – Adéla Gjuricová 12 'A society that is sinking ever deeper into a state of chronic alcohol poisoning': medical and moral treatment of alcoholics in the Soviet Union, c. 1970–91 – Christian Werkmeister Index

'[Chapters] are rich in detail as well as firmly set within their wider, global developments in medical theories and practices, and locality-specific economic policies and political ideology... The book is aimed at students at postgraduate level, mental health service workers and academics in a variety of disciplines such as history (including history of medicine, history of science, and history of colonialism), social geography, medical anthropology, health studies, psychiatry and medicine.'Social History Society