Graduate School of Business Administration
Ryosuke Yokoe

Books and Other Publications

1. Alcohol and Liver Cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain
Ryosuke Yokoe (Sole author)
Palgrave Macmillan 2023.4 (ISBN : 9783031271069)

Papers

1. Brewers, Booze and Medicine: Industrial Funding of Alcoholic Liver Disease Research in 1980s Britain (Peer-reviewed)
Ryosuke Yokoe
Social History of Medicine Vol.35,No.1,pp.259-277 2022.3
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2. Alcohol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Britain (Peer-reviewed)
Ryosuke Yokoe
The Historical Journal Vol.62,No.1,pp.267-287 2019.3
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3. Medical Understandings of Alcohol and the Liver in Twentieth-Century Britain (Peer-reviewed)
Ryosuke Yokoe
The University of Sheffield (PhD Thesis) 2019.2
4. August Experience: Popular Reactions to the Outbreak of World War I in Sheffield (Peer-reviewed)
Ryosuke Yokoe
Track Changes Vol.6,pp.51-71 2014

Misc.

1. (Book Review) Jeffrey W. Alexander, <i>Drinking Bomb and Shooting Meth: Alcohol and Drug Use in Japan</i>
Ryosuke Yokoe
The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs Vol.37,No.2,pp.327-330 2023.10
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2. (Book Review) Timothy M. Yang, <i>A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan</i>
Ryosuke Yokoe
History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals Vol.65,No.1,pp.182-184 2023.10
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3. 'COVID-19, "Big Government", And The Prohibition Of Alcohol: Crisis As A Transnational Moment For Social Change'
Ryosuke Yokoe
History Matters (online article) 2020.5
4. 'Abstinence Or Moderate Drinking? Reflecting On The U.S. Prohibition In Britain'
Ryosuke Yokoe
History Matters (online article) 2018.12
5. 'Is Sugar Water Healthier Than Alcohol? The Temperance Movement And The Rise Of The Soft Drink'
Ryosuke Yokoe
History Matters (online article) 2015.5

Presentations

No. Name of subject/Conference Name Year Site
1. 'Power, Ideas, and Expertise: The Alcohol Industry’s Strategies in Navigating UK Public Health Debates after the 1970s'(Annual Congress of the European Business History Association 2024, Nova School of Business)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2024.7
2. 「産業による医学研究助成の政策的背景:1980 年代イギリスにおけるビール産業団体とアルコール性肝疾患研究を中心に」(59th Annual Conference of the Business History Society of Japan)
Holding date : 2023.12.2 - 2023.12.3
Presentation date : 2023.12.2
3. 'Alcohol Regulation and the Political Economy of Twentieth-Century Britain'(British East-Asian Conference of Historians (BEACH) 2023, Institute of Historical Research)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2023.9
4. ‘Brewers, Booze and Medicine: Industrial Funding of Alcoholic Liver Disease Research in 1980s Britain’(Rethinking Alcohol and Drugs, biennial conference of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2022.6
5. 「20世紀イギリス社会における飲酒:禁酒運動,酒類産業,モラル・パニック」(72nd Annual Japanese Society of Western History Conference, Toyo University)
Holding date : 2022.5.21 - 2022.5.22
Presentation date : 2022.5.22
6. 'Alcohol as Medicine: A Roundtable Discussion'(Drinking Studies Network Conference 2021, University of Bristol)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2021.11
7. ‘Brewers, Booze and Medicine: Industrial Funding of Alcoholic Liver Disease Research in 1980s Britain’(Political Economy Tokyo Seminar (PoETS))
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2021.10
8. Roundtable Discussion on Suicide, Society and Crisis(Suicide, Mental Health and National Crisis, workshop, University of Sheffield)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2019.3
9. ‘Brewers, Booze and Medicine: Industrial Funding of Alcoholic Liver Disease Research in 1980s Britain’(Health in Context seminar series, Centre for the Social History of Health & Healthcare, University of Strathclyde)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2019.1
10. ‘Conceptualising Harm: Expert Knowledge on the Liver and Approaches to Alcohol and Health’(Department of History research seminar, University of Sheffield)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2018.10
11. ‘New Moderationism: The Decline of Drunkenness and Medical Discourse on Alcohol in Interwar Britain’(Radical Temperance: Social Change and Drink, from Teetotalism to Dry January, conference, University of Central Lancashire)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2018.6
12. ‘Shifting Approaches to Alcohol Regulation in Twentieth-Century Britain’(Intoxication and Society in a Comparative and Historical Perspective, workshop, University of Sheffield)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2018.5
13. ‘Brewers, Booze and Medicine: Industrial Funding of Alcoholic Liver Disease Research in 1980s Britain’(Postgraduate Colloquium, plenary speaker, University of Sheffield)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2018.5
14. ‘Alcohol and the Liver: Disease Knowledge and Stigma’(Researching Stigmatised Health Conditions, symposium, University of Sheffield)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2017.10
15. ‘Alcohol and the Liver: Medical Knowledge and the “Ebb and Flow” of Public Anxieties over Drink in Britain’(The Body Politic: States in the History of Medicine and Health, biennial conference for the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2017.8
16. ‘Alcohol and the Liver: Medical Knowledge and the “Ebb and Flow” of Public Anxieties over Drink in Britain’(Drinking and Drug Policies in History: Contextualizing Causes and Consequences, biennial conference of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, Utrecht University)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2017.6
17. ‘Historical Narratives on the Disease Causation of Alcohol and the Liver’(Annual Medical School Research Meeting, PGR conference, University of Sheffield)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2017.6
18. ‘New Moderationism: The Decline of Drunkenness and Medical Discourse on Alcohol in Interwar Britain’(Postgraduate Colloquium, PGR conference, Department of History)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2017.5
19. ‘The Decline of Drunkenness and Medical Discourse on Alcohol in Interwar Britain’(Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Seminar Series, University of Manchester)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2016.11
20. ‘A Permissive Society? The Decline of Drunkenness and Medical Discourse on Alcohol in Interwar Britain’(Intoxication: Discourse, and Practice, workshop, University of Sheffield)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2016.9
21. ‘From the Laboratory to the Population Sample: Aetiological Conceptions of Liver Disease and their Sites of Production’(Medicine in its Place: Situating Medicine in Historical Contexts, biennial conference of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, University of Kent)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2016.7
22. ‘The Toxicity of Alcohol on the Liver: Changing Conceptions of Disease Causation’(The Three Societies Meeting: Transitions, quadrennial conference of the British Society for the History of Science, the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, and the History of Science Society, University of Alberta)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2016.6
23. ‘Alcohol and the Liver: Disease Knowledge and Practice Theory’(Practices and Discourses, workshop, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2016.2
24. ‘Disease Knowledge & Shame in Historical and Cultural Perspectives’(Interdisciplinary Network Showcase, University of Sheffield)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2015.9
25. ‘The Strange Death of English Prohibitionism: WWI and the Prehistory of Surveillance Medicine’(Science, Society and the State, 1870-1935, conference, University of Nottingham)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2015.9
26. 'What Causes Cirrhosis of the Liver? Contextualising Obsolete Theories in Medical Science'(Postgraduate Research Showcase, University of Sheffield)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2015.6
27. 'The Economic Thought of Alexander Hamilton and Mercantilism'(Undergraduate History Conference, University of St Andrews)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2014.2

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Research Projects

No. Research subject Research item(Awarding organization, System name) Year
1. Symposium Organisation Grant
International Comparative Studies of History and Institution
( Awarding organization: Center for International Research on the Japanese Economy (CIRJE) System name: Research Project Grant )
2023.4 - 2024.3
2. 戦後イギリスのアルコール・タバコ広告規制──公衆衛生とマーケティング
特別研究員奨励費
( Awarding organization: 日本学術振興会 System name: 科学研究費助成事業 )
2022.4 - 2025.3
3. Research Fellowship (PD)
Economic History
( Awarding organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science )
2022.4 - 2025.3
4. Conference Travel Grant

( Awarding organization: European Association for the History of Medicine and Health )
2017.8
5. Conference Travel Grant

( Awarding organization: Royal Historical Society )
2016.5
6. Research Support Grant

( Awarding organization: The British Society for the History of Science )
2016.3
7. Medical Humanities Sheffield (MHS) PhD Studentship

( Awarding organization: University of Sheffield )
2014.9 - 2017.8
8. Sheffield Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Research Grant

( Awarding organization: University of Sheffield )
2013.6

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