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Alcohol and Liver Cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain Alcohol and the Liver in Edwardian Britain

Alcohol and Liver Cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain : Alcohol and the Liver in Edwardian... [This chapter examines the beginning of the twentieth century when most physicians acknowledged alcohol in Britain as a direct cause of cirrhosis; a conceptual framework referred to in the book as the Direct Toxicity Theory (DTT). Within the Edwardian context of fierce political disagreements between the temperance movement and the liquor trade over licencing reform, the chapter discusses how physicians sympathetic to the temperance movement used the DTT to exaggerate the destructive effect that alcohol has on the body. Its primary purpose is to provide a sense of change across the rest of the book, presenting an initial period when most observers presumed alcohol to be responsible for cirrhosis before such views went into decline.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Alcohol and Liver Cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain Alcohol and the Liver in Edwardian Britain

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
ISBN
978-3-031-27106-9
Pages
27 –59
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-27107-6_2
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[This chapter examines the beginning of the twentieth century when most physicians acknowledged alcohol in Britain as a direct cause of cirrhosis; a conceptual framework referred to in the book as the Direct Toxicity Theory (DTT). Within the Edwardian context of fierce political disagreements between the temperance movement and the liquor trade over licencing reform, the chapter discusses how physicians sympathetic to the temperance movement used the DTT to exaggerate the destructive effect that alcohol has on the body. Its primary purpose is to provide a sense of change across the rest of the book, presenting an initial period when most observers presumed alcohol to be responsible for cirrhosis before such views went into decline.]

Published: Apr 29, 2023

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