Global Approaches: The 4th International Conference on the History of Alcohol and Drugs, August 10-12, 2007, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.


Preliminary Agenda:

• Alcohol and Social Change

• Medical Discourses

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Zheng Yangwen,

• Images and Cultures of Consumption

• Alcohol and Drug History and Medical History: A Roundtable

• Changing Approaches to Treatment

• Business and Prohibition

• Alcohol Regulation in Canada

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Robin Room,

• Class, Race, and Gender

• Trading Alcohol and Drugs

• State Power, People Power: Comparative Exploration of Efforts to Eradicate Heroin/Opium in Mexico, Thailand and the Philippines.

• Temperance Movements Across Times and Places

• Drugs and Morality

• Drugs, Alcohol and Modernization

• Drug Consumption and Drug Policy in Post-WW II America

• Nationalism, Modernization and Narcotic Control

• Science, Temperance, and Civic Society on the Periphery

• Print and Advertising

Further information about the conference, including registration information and a full
programe is available here.

Source: Alcohol and Drug History Society

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