Intoxication and Society: Problematic Pleasures of Drugs and Alcohol

by Klaus Mann

Book Overview

Intoxicants, substances that alter a person's mental and physiological state, are a continuing obsession. In their effect on the mind and body, intoxicants go to the heart of what it means to be human. In the tensions between 'free' and uninhibited consumption on the one hand, and the pressures of social regulation and personal responsibility on the other, they also illuminate the daily paradoxes, and sheer complexity, of living in modern Western...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137008342
• ISBN13: 9781137008343
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"