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One for the Road
Drunk Driving Since 1900

By Lerner, Barron H.

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ISBN: 1421401908 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Published: Sep 7 2011 Pages: 218 Weight: 1.02lbs. Height: 9.25" Width: 6.25" Depth: 1.00" Language: English

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Lerner (medicine and public health, Columbia U.) traces the history of drunk driving and efforts to control it in the US. He relates the stories of doctors and advocates who promoted the sympathetic concept of alcoholism after the repeal of Prohibition, scientists and policy makers who conceptualize...

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Lerner (medicine and public health, Columbia U.) traces the history of drunk driving and efforts to control it in the US. He relates the stories of doctors and advocates who promoted the sympathetic concept of alcoholism after the repeal of Prohibition, scientists and policy makers who conceptualized drunk driving as a major public health problem, and representatives of the alcoholic beverage industry who promoted responsible drinking while ensuring sales of their product. Also discussed are the women who started Mothers Against Drunk Driving, academics who challenged statistics that justified new activism against drunk driving, libertarian critics, and drunk drivers themselves. He describes the first research on drunk driving in the 1930s, the influence of increased driving with the growth of the suburbs and highways in the 1950s and 1960s, the introduction of the Drunkometer and Breathalyzer, activist groups like Students Against Drunk Driving and the Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists, Ronald Reagan's creation of the Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving, continued scientific research, stories of drunk driving today, and problems preventing and punishing the behavior. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)