Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Historical evolution of alcohol consumption in society / David J. Hanson
  • 2. Key studies of alcohol and disease / Jürgen Rehm and Kevin D. Shield
  • 3. Cultural aspects: representations of alcohol in visual art / James Harris
  • 4. Cultural aspects: illustrations of alcohol use in literature / Anya Taylor
  • 5. Cultural aspects: alcohol use in film / July Cornes
  • 6. Sociocultural aspects of alcohol consumption / Robin Room
  • 7. Chemistry of alcoholic beverages / Laurence I. Peterson
  • 8. Alcohol metabolism and genetic control / Philip J. Brooks and Samir Zakhari
  • 9. Implications of the genetics of alcoholism and addictions for public policy / David Goldman
  • 10. Pathophysiology of alcohol addiction / Wolfgang H. Sommer
  • 11. Opioid pharmacogenetics of alcohol addiction / Wade Berrettini
  • 12. Tools for estimating alcohol consumption / Gerhard Gmel, Kevin D. Shield, and Jürgen Rehm
  • 13. A global overview of alcohol consumption patterns / Gerhard Gmel, Florian Labhart, Kevin D. Shield, Margaret Rylett, Dirk W. Lachenmeier, and Jürgen Rehm
  • 14. Impact of extreme drinking on mortality / David Zaridze
  • 15. Unrecorded alcohol consumption / Dirk W. Lachenmeier, Gerhard Gmel and Jürgen Rehm
  • 16. Adolescent and teenage drinking / Ralph W. Hingson and Aaron M. White
  • 17. Gender and alcohol: consumption and consequences / Richard W. Wilsnack and Sharon C. Wilsnack
  • 18. Alcohol use in the elderly / Jennifer G. Plebani, David W. Oslin, and Adam B. Lipson
  • 19. Alcohol consumption and injury / Scott Macdonald, Alissa Greer, Jeffrey R. Brubacher, Cheryl Cherpitel, Tim Stockwell and Corneilia Zeisser
  • 20. Alcohol and road traffic injury
  • James C. Fell and Robert B. Voas
  • 21. Alcohol and suicide / Alexander E. Crosby, Victoria Espitia-Hardeman, La Vonne Ortega, and Briana Lozano
  • 22. Alcohol and intimate partner violence / Megan R. Gerber
  • 23. Alcohol and crime / Stephen K. Talpins, Robyn Robertson, Erin Holmes and Matthew Dunagan
  • 24. Alcohol and carcinogenesis: mechanisms and biomarkers / C.J. Peter Eriksson
  • 25. Upper aerodigestive tumours: mouth, pharynx, larynx, and oesophagus / Mia Hashibe, Binh Y. Goldstein, Lin Cai, and Zuo-Feng Zhang
  • 26. Gastrointestinal tumours / David Zaridze
  • 27. Liver and pancreatic tumours / Patrick Maisonneuve
  • 28. Alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk / Peter Boyle
  • 29. Bladder and genitourinary tumours / Claudio Pelucchi and Carlotta Galeone
  • 30. Cardiac disease / William H. Frishman
  • 31. Vascular disease / Kenneth J. Mukamal
  • 32. Benign diseases of the gastrointestinal tract / Julia B. Greer and Dhiraj Yadav
  • 33. Liver disease / Michael H. Miller, Frank Sullivan, and John F. Dillon
  • 34. Pancreatitis / Dhiraj Yadav
  • 35. Diabetes / Dolly Baliunas
  • 36. Neurological and mental disorders / Tarakad S. Ramachandran
  • 37. Infectious disease / Andriy V. Samokhvalov, Paul A. Shuper, and Jürgen Rehm
  • 38. Alcohol and pregnancy: fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and the fetal alcohol syndrome / Kenneth R. Warren and Margaret M. Murray
  • 39. Screening of high-risk drinkers / Amy O'Donnell and Eileen Kaner
  • 40. Brief intervention: does it work? / Eileen Kaner and Amy O'Donnell
  • 41. Drug therapy: reviewing the evidence / Michael Soyka
  • 42. The private sector and public: can they be reconciled? / Paul Miller and Marjana Martinic
  • 43. Impact of alcohol on poverty and the need for appropriate policy / Aneel Karnani
  • 44. Control of alcohol availability: historical and current policies and their effects / Esa Österberg
  • 45. Taxation and price control / Michael Livingston
  • 46. Alcohol control measures and traffic safety / Christine M. Wickens, Robert E. Mann, Gina Stoduto, Rosely Flam-Zalcman and Jennifer Butters
  • 47. Public information and education campaigns / Claire Wilkinson
  • 48. Towards a global alcohol policy: current directions / Harry Burns.