JONATHAN HERRING is Professor of Law at the University of Oxford, UK and Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford. CIARAN REGAN is Professor of Neuropharmacology at University College Dublin, Ireland and a Fellow of the UCD Conway Institute, Ireland. DARIN WEINBERG is Fellow and Director of Studies at King's College, Cambridge, UK and University Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, UK. PHILIP WITHINGTON is University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, UK and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, UK.

'Intoxication and Society, as the title suggests, is ambitious in its scope. Its success lies in its thoughtful execution.' - Sally Marlow, Institute of Psychiatry, sallymarlow.com "Due to its accessibility and comprehensive format, Intoxication and Society is a manuscript that proves to be a useful tool in critically analysing and understanding the gamut of social, historical, and political issues surrounding the constant debate involving substance use and its effect on society." - Mariah Jade Zimpfer, Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh, UK "The Editors of this book are professors of law, neuropharmacology, sociology and early medieval history, and hence it provides an array of perspectives on alcohol and other psychoactive drugs. The first chapter overviews these diverse themes, and provides useful guidance for the overall text...For Journal of Psychopharmacology readers, the final chapter may be of particular interest, since it provides a 'neuroscientific' perspective." - Andy Parrott, British Association for Psychopharmacology newsletter

• IntroductionPART I: THE FORMATION OF EXPERTISEMedical Expertise and the Understandings of Intoxication in Britain 1660 to 1830The Expertise of Non-Experts: Knowledges of Intoxication in Criminal LawIntoxicants: The Formation of Health Expertise in the Twentieth CenturyPART II: SPATIAL POLITICS'The Relations of Inebriety to Insurance': Geographies of Medicine, Insurance and Alcohol in Britain 1841 1911Alehouse Licensing and State Formation in Early Modern EnglandPART III: CULTURE AND PRACTICERenaissance Drinking Cultures and Popular PrintOn the Cultural Domestication of IntoxicantsNudge Policy, Embodiment and Intoxication ProblemsPART IV: INTOXICATION AND THE SELFBeastly Metamorphoses: Losing Control in Early Modern Literary CultureIntoxicants and Compulsive Behaviour A Neuroscientific PerspectivePraxis, Interaction and the Loss of Self-ControlPART V: LAW, MORALITY AND SCIENCEAddiction and ResponsibilityThe Current Law of Intoxication: Rules and ProblemsThe Addicted Self: A Neuroscientific Perspective.

JONATHAN HERRING is Professor of Law at the University of Oxford, UK and Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford. CIARAN REGAN is Professor of Neuropharmacology at University College Dublin, Ireland and a Fellow of the UCD Conway Institute, Ireland. DARIN WEINBERG is Fellow and Director of Studies at King's College, Cambridge, UK and University Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, UK. PHILIP WITHINGTON is University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, UK and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, UK.

'Intoxication and Society, as the title suggests, is ambitious in its scope. Its success lies in its thoughtful execution.' - Sally Marlow, Institute of Psychiatry, sallymarlow.com "Due to its accessibility and comprehensive format, Intoxication and Society is a manuscript that proves to be a useful tool in critically analysing and understanding the gamut of social, historical, and political issues surrounding the constant debate involving substance use and its effect on society." - Mariah Jade Zimpfer, Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh, UK "The Editors of this book are professors of law, neuropharmacology, sociology and early medieval history, and hence it provides an array of perspectives on alcohol and other psychoactive drugs. The first chapter overviews these diverse themes, and provides useful guidance for the overall text...For Journal of Psychopharmacology readers, the final chapter may be of particular interest, since it provides a 'neuroscientific' perspective." - Andy Parrott, British Association for Psychopharmacology newsletter

• IntroductionPART I: THE FORMATION OF EXPERTISEMedical Expertise and the Understandings of Intoxication in Britain 1660 to 1830The Expertise of Non-Experts: Knowledges of Intoxication in Criminal LawIntoxicants: The Formation of Health Expertise in the Twentieth CenturyPART II: SPATIAL POLITICS'The Relations of Inebriety to Insurance': Geographies of Medicine, Insurance and Alcohol in Britain 1841 1911Alehouse Licensing and State Formation in Early Modern EnglandPART III: CULTURE AND PRACTICERenaissance Drinking Cultures and Popular PrintOn the Cultural Domestication of IntoxicantsNudge Policy, Embodiment and Intoxication ProblemsPART IV: INTOXICATION AND THE SELFBeastly Metamorphoses: Losing Control in Early Modern Literary CultureIntoxicants and Compulsive Behaviour A Neuroscientific PerspectivePraxis, Interaction and the Loss of Self-ControlPART V: LAW, MORALITY AND SCIENCEAddiction and ResponsibilityThe Current Law of Intoxication: Rules and ProblemsThe Addicted Self: A Neuroscientific Perspective.