UCL Events
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13:15 - 13:55 27 November 2012
Lunch Hour Lecture: ‘Those that don’t drink, don’t die so fast’: drink, health and insurance in Victorian Britain
Location
Darwin Lecture Theatre - access via Malet Place |
Darwin Building
(
Map)
Gower St |
London |
WC1E 6BT |
United Kingdom
Open to:
Academic |
Alumni |
Public |
Student
Admission: FREE
Ticketing: Open
Speaker information
Dr James Kneale, UCL Geography
In the nineteenth century, mainstream medical opinion suggested that abstaining from alcohol was a health risk. The advent of insurance policies for abstainers helped to chip away at this certainty, as well as encouraging policyholders to think about their health. This lecture will discuss how, by the start of the twentieth century, the medical profession had begun to do very well out of insurance, despite the ambiguities of assessing drink-related problems.
Contact
Catherine Dean
020 3108 3838 |
c.dean@ucl.ac.uk
Links
Click here to watch this lecture streamed live online at 1.15pm on the day
