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Title: Alcohol: The Ambiguous Molecule
Publisher: Penguin
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0140266666
ISBN 13: 9780140266665
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good

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Griffith Edwards's survey deploys history and science to explore the whole issue of alcohol. Why do different people behave differently when drunk? Is alcoholism a disease? What is 'safe drinking'? Is alcohol good for the heart? Does treatment work? Does Alcoholics Anonymous have the answer? Can alcoholics ever go back to social drinking? How for the future might society better handle this ambiguous drug? This book will be of interest to everyone who likes to drink, who is happy or worried about their drinking, or who chooses personally to abstain.

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Griffith Edwards's Alcohol is a short, ambitious overview of the "the world's favorite drug." He begins on the molecular level and ranges wide, with peeks at alcohol's role in religion, in secular mythology, as a medicine, a disease, source of misery and elation, and something to be legislated and taxed. Edwards, though a stiff stylist, can be interesting, as when discussing the search for a "sovereign" remedy for alcoholism, the "disease concept" of alcoholism, the relative efficacy of Alcoholics Anonymous, and especially how cultural expectations affect the behavior of inebriates. The book's brevity is problematic: a history of England's 18th-century gin epidemic raises more questions than it answers; his statement that AA "probably works, in some way or other, for not less than 50 percent of [those] who make contact with it" needs annotation; and his essay on America's Prohibition era is annoyingly sketchy. Edwards, commendably, maintains a rigorous objectivity throughout. --H. O'Billovich

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