| Sober Reflections: Commerce, Public Health, and the Evolution of Alcohol Policy in Canada, 1980-2000 ISBN: 9780773559974 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Government policy -- Canada; Alcoholic beverage industry -- Government policy -- Canada;
Alcohol policies reflect conflicting ideological, social, health, and commercial agendas. Sober Reflections describes the development of alcohol policies at the national level and in Alberta, Quebec, and Ontario between 1980 and 2000. Using qualitative research methods, the essays examine the roles of key players, including governments, NGOs, public health advocates, and representatives of the alcohol industry. The contributors base their incisive papers on interviews with representatives from public health and the government, lobbyists, researchers, media, and those in the alcohol industries, as well as on an analysis of government documents, newspaper accounts, and official statistics. Lindquist Evert : Evert A. Lindquist is professor and director, School of Public Administartion, University of Victoria.Norman Giesbrecht is senior scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto. Andrée Demers is professor and director, Groupe de recherche sur les aspects sociaux de la santé et de la prevention, Université de Montréal. Evert A. Lindquist |