Contributions of social science to the alcohol field in an era of biomedicalization

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1107-1116

  Midanik, Lorraine ^a,b   Room, Robin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ALCOHOL RESEARCH GROUP   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alcohol studies; Biomedicalization; Epidemiology; Social sciences

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROBIOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; COST OF ILLNESS; HUMANS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 10044291579     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.06.042     Document Type: Article

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