Drunk how we sipped, danced, and stumbled our way to civilization
Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends and anecdotal impressions that surround our notions of intoxication to provide the first rigorous, scientifically grounded explanation for our love of alcohol. Drawing on evidence from archaeology, history, cognitive neuroscience, psychopharma...
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New York :
Little, Brown Spark,
2022.
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| Edition: | First Little Brown, Spark paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Why Do We Get Drunk?
- Brain Hijack: Porn and Sexually Starved Fruit Flies
- Evolutionary Hangovers: Drunken Monkeys, Liquid Kimchee, and Dirty Water
- More Than Twinkies and Porn: Beyond Hangover and Hijack Theories
- A Genuine Evolutionary Puzzle: An Enemy in the Mouth That Steals Away the Brain
- A Genetic Mystery: We Are Apes Built to Get High
- A Cultural Mystery: Prohibition's Strange Failure to Take Over the World
- Pickles for the Ancestors?
- 2. Leaving the Door Open for Dionysus
- The Human Ecological Niche: Creative, Cultural, Communal
- The Creative Animal
- The Cultural Animal
- The Communal Animal
- Regaining the Child's Mind
- The Drunken Mind
- Leaving the Door Open for Dionysus
- 3. Intoxication, Ecstasy, and the Origins of Civilization
- A Visit from the Muse: Intoxication and Creativity
- Chemical Puppies: Turning Wolves into Labradors
- The Chemical Handshake: In Vino Veritas
- Puking and Bonding
- Liquid Ecstasy and the Hive Mind
- Political Power and Social Solidarity
- Cultural Group Selection
- 4. Intoxication in the Modern World
- Whiskey Rooms, Saloons, and the Ballmer Peak
- Truth Is the Color Blue: Modern Shamans and Microdosing
- Why Skype Didn't Eliminate Business Travel
- Office Parties: Pros and Not Just Cons
- Long Live the Local
- Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beer Holder: Sex, Friendship, and Intimacy
- Collective Effervescence: Tequila Shots and Burning Man
- Ecstasy: Vacation from the Self
- It's Only Rock-n-Roll: Defending the Hedonistic Body
- It Is Time to Be Drunk
- 5. The Dark Side of Dionysus
- The Puzzle of Alcoholism
- The Problem with Liquor: An Evolutionary Mismatch
- Isolation: The Danger of Drinking Alone
- Distillation and Isolation: The Twin Banes of Modernity
- Drunk Driving, Bar Fights, and Venereal Disease
- Beer Goggles and Violence Against Women
- Outsiders and Teetotalers Not Welcome: Reinforcing the Old Boys' Clubs
- Solace or Wedge? Reinforcing Bad Relationships
- Drunk on Heaven: Getting Beyond Alcohol?
- Taming Dionysus
- Living with Dionysus.
