El contexto social del beber.

Mortalidad registrada y representación social de la muerte

Abstract

This document concerned with the social representations about deaths for alcohol consumption and its relationship with morbility data for causes related to this consumption. These representations are part of the social context that occur the illness for those who are in risk of that consumption and who tries to abandon it. At the same time, both are part of illness. The ethnographic data were gotten in the mazahua region in the state of Mexico and mortality statistics from different publications and regional archives.