Moderate drinking before the unit: medicine and life assurance in Britain and the US c.1860–1930

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Moderate drinking before the unit: medicine and life assurance in Britain and the US c.1860–1930

This article describes the way in which “Anstie’s Limit” – a particular definition of moderate drinking first defined in Britain in the 1860s by the physician Francis Edmund Anstie (1833–1874) – became established as a useful measure of moderate alcohol consumption. Becoming fairly well-established...

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Main Authors:	Kneale, James, French, Shaun
Format:	Article
Published:	Informa Healthcare 2015
Subjects:	Alcohol risk harm reduction
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29151/

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