Titlebook: Alcohol and Liver Cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain; Ryosuke Yokoe Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under e

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Book 2023ications for the public reputation of alcohol in Britain. Despite this, it was not until the 1970s that cirrhosis came to be understood as an ‘a(chǎn)lcoholic disease’. This book contextualises developments in this debate through the twentieth century by examining the significant influence that medical ex

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Gang Kou,Daji Ergu,Yi Peng,Yong Shilace of medical expertise in the broader history of alcohol and drugs. After outlining the methodology and source base, the introduction concludes by summarising the book’s chapters and two main?arguments.

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Introduction,on establishes some basic facts and figures on liver disease and its broader significance among?the various harms that?result from alcohol use. This is followed by the book’s engagement with historiographical discussions on disease causation and cirrhosis, alcohol policy in modern Britain, and the p

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Alcohol and the Liver in Edwardian Britain,nceptual framework referred to in the book as the?.(DTT). Within the Edwardian context of fierce political disagreements between the temperance movement and the liquor trade over licencing reform, the chapter discusses how physicians sympathetic to the temperance movement used the DTT to exaggerate

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New Moderationism and the Liver in Interwar Britain,terature. Although there was no clear consensus on?the precise role of alcohol in cirrhosis, with some medical professionals even suggesting that the causation was indirect, most began to sense that the relationship between the two was markedly more complicated than previously assumed under the Dire

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Cirrhosis as a Nutritional Disorder, the Second World War. A study of scientific journals from the 1930s to the 1950s illustrates the complex and laborious process by?which medical scientists came to view cirrhosis as a disease borne out of the deficiency of vital nutrients. The theory owed its international popularity to its endorsem

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Alcoholic Cirrhosis in the Late Twentieth Century,uestion in Britain. Alcohol was?re-established as the primary cause of cirrhosis by Charles S. Lieber, a liver specialist from New York. Further studies that looked?into the role of?individual and environmental factors that contributed to the disease on top of the toxic action of alcohol led to the