Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- 1 Introduction: The Era of Biomedicalization -- 2 Biomedicalization: At-Risk as a Steady State -- 3 Precursors of Biomedicalization in Alcohol Studies: Medicalization and the Disease Model of Alcoholism -- 4 Exiting Public Health: Expansion of the Biomedical Model in Alcohol Research -- 5 Manifestations of the New Ideology -- 6 Biomedicalization and Alcohol Research in Sweden -- 7 Biomedicalization and the Social Sciences1 -- Subject Index -- Name Index