The Drunken Monkey (eBook)

Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol

Robert Dudley (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
178 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95817-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Alcoholism, as opposed to the safe consumption of alcohol, remains a major public health issue. In this accessible book, Robert Dudley presents an intriguing evolutionary interpretation to explain the persistence of alcohol-related problems. Providing a deep-time, interdisciplinary perspective on today's patterns of alcohol consumption and abuse, Dudley traces the link between the fruit-eating behavior of arboreal primates and the evolution of the sensory skills required to identify ripe and fermented fruits that contain sugar and low levels of alcohol. In addition to introducing this new theory of the relationship of humans to alcohol, the book discusses the supporting research, implications of the hypothesis, and the medical and social impacts of alcoholism. The Drunken Monkey is designed for interested readers, scholars, and students in comparative and evolutionary biology, biological anthropology, medicine, and public health.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Prologue
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction
2. The Fruits of Fermentation
3. On the Inebriation of Elephants
4. Aping About in the Forest
5. A First-Rate Molecule
6. Alcoholics Aren’t Anonymous
7. Winos in the Mist

Postscript
Sources and Recommended Reading
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: addiction • Addiction Treatment • Alcohol • alcohol abuse • alcohol consumption • alcoholics • alcoholism • alcohol related problems • Biological Anthropology • Biology • comparative biology • Drinking • evolutionary biology • evolutionary ecology • Evolutionary Interpretation • fermented fruits • fruit eating • Health • humans and alcohol • Interdisciplinary • major public health issue • medical impacts • Medicine • physical anthropology • Primates • Public Health • social impacts • substance abuse
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95817-9 / 0520958179
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95817-3 / 9780520958173