CONTENTS 1 Introduction, 3 2 Singing One's Way to Sobriety: The State's Guardianship, 14 3 Drugs Are Our Business: Physicians Stake a Claim on Therapies, 36 4 Battling Booze: Strategies for Sobriety in the Military, 52 5 The Church's New Social Mission, 69 6 Women's Physical and Political Use of Alcohol, 90 7 Tea and Symphony: The Laity Mobilizes against Alcohol, 111 8 The Politics of Alcohol, 129 9 Conclusion, 146 Epilogue, 151 Notes, 163 Bibliography, 215 Index, 235 Photo Gallery follows p. 68