xii, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Starting the Conversation / Phil Withington -- Introduction -- Some key themes -- Intoxication and history -- Section 1 The Formation of Èxpertise' -- 2.Medical Expertise and the Understandings of Intoxication in Britain, 1660 to 1830 / David Clemis -- 3.The Exper...

Contents note continued: Expert committees and policy communities -- 1990s onward: new disciplines and crossing boundaries -- Conclusion -- Section 2 Spatial Politics -- 5.T̀he Relations of Inebriety to Insurance': Geographies of Medicine, Insurance and Alcohol in Britain, 1841-1911 / Shaun French -...

Contents note continued: Introduction -- Tracing a lineage -- Comparing cases -- Provisional propositions -- 9.Nudge Policy, Embodiment and Intoxication Problems / Angus Bancroft -- Embodiment and liberal subjectivity -- Neuronal public policy -- How is intoxication embodied? -- Embodied drug use --...

Contents note continued: Toward a sociology of the loss of self-control -- Conclusion -- Section 5 Law, Morality and Science -- 13.Addiction and Responsibility / Jonathan Herring -- Introduction -- Criminal law and addiction -- John Gardner on excuses -- Conceptions of addiction -- Developing a new...

Contents note continued: The rules on therapeutic intoxicants are not wholly clear, and are based on the same problematic theory underlying the rules of voluntary, recreational intoxication -- Arguably, even where the defendant is permitted to use evidence of intoxication to deny mens rea in princip...