Abstract
Wine and beer are alcoholic. This makes them as “cultural,” as dependent upon civilized control and organization as bread, in that human beings have to work hard and long... Care, planning, technology, and organization are required for both. Alcohol is to be treated with respect, not because it is “the staff of life” like bread, but because it is exactly the opposite: it gives pleasure, but it is usually unnecessary and potentially dangerous. In ancient Greek myth, wine was a “latecomer” in human history, which meant among other things that people could live without it. Drinking it induced religious awe and direct acquaintance with Dionysius, the god of the vine, of ecstasy; of the group acting as one, of the loss of individual identity (Visser, quoted in Murdock, 1998).
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(2002). Case Study Five. In: Case Studies in Forensic Epidemiology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47524-3_8
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