⭐ An Instrument of Social Control: The Scientization of Drunkenness

"Theories of alcoholism came to be used as instruments of social control. Medical discourses influenced anti-alcohol movements and later supported the tendency to make “drunkards” invisible by committing them to drinkers’ asylums."

https://historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org/24667

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