Alcoholism, semantics and social history

A history of alcoholism

Jean-Charles Sournia is both an eminent French historian and Vice President of the French government's Commission on Alcohol. A history of alcoholism is the English translation of his ambitious attempt to chronicle how attitudes towards the excessive consumption of alcohol have changed through time. Both the structure of this book and its point of view reflect the author's dual perspective. Whi...

The Natural History of Alcoholism

Over the past 55 years, two longitudinal studies have been monitoring the drinking behaviors and their consequences of several hundred men from adolescence and early adulthood to old age. The studies identified co-occurring sociopathy, cultural factors (e.g., ethnicity), and genetic factors (i.e., a family history of alcoholism) as risk factors for alcoholism. In most alcoholics, the disease ha...

[Alcoholism as a psychiatric and social problem].

The Semantics of history

1 General introduction Semantic modeling of information, knowledge and language mostly assumes a static definition of the world. Concepts and instances of these concepts are defined as a static model; language and expressions are related to this specification. Even dynamic systems consider the most recent version of some reality as the preferred definition and only require updating the model to...

Social Networks and Semantics

This chapter discusses the relation between Social Networks and Semantics – two areas that have recently gathered a lot of attention from both academia and industry. We show how synergies between these two areas can be used to solve concrete problems, and we describe three approaches that demonstrate the potential for interconnecting these technologies. The first approach focuses on the semanti...