Outputs (2)

Insuring biofinance: alcohol, risk and the limits of life (2015)
Journal Article
French, S., & Kneale, J. (2015). Insuring biofinance: alcohol, risk and the limits of life

Moderate drinking before the unit: medicine and life assurance in Britain and the US c.1860–1930 (2015)
Journal Article
Kneale, J., & French, S. (2015). Moderate drinking before the unit: medicine and life assurance in Britain and the US c.1860–1930. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 22(2), https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2014.964185

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