Hi Dan...

Bill White is a member of this list, I believe.  Anybody wishing to get
around the distribution
problem you've mentioned may want to email him directly, at
[log in to unmask] (yes, that's 3 Ls in BILLLWHITE).  You're right --
Bill's Philadelphia paper was cannibalized into the prologue (on words and
meanings) of his book (pp. xiii-xvi).  Your undergrad friend will find many
useful references there, including of course Harry Levine's classic paper
("The Discovery of Addiction: Changing Conceptions of Drunkenness in
America," Journal of Studies on Alcohol 39:143-174, 1978 -- which is
available online at the Lindesmith Center website).  She might also be
invited to explore the etoh database (etoh.niaaa.nih.gov) to look for, say,
Jessica Warner's response to Harry's paper as well as for histories of the
addiction idea relating to cocaine use (Stanton Peele) or alcohol (Yalisove
-- though his article is loaded with problems), etc.

Ron

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From: Dan Malleck <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: slaying the dragon
Date: Friday, April 21, 2000 4:53 AM

Two quick questions.
Does anyone know how I can get my hands on a copy of Bill White's _Slaying
the Dragon_ relatively quickly?  I ordered it last year from Chapters.ca (a
Canadian online bookseller) but it never arrived.  Now I find that the
status of it at Chapters and at Amazon is ... it's gonna take a while.
(Ironically, I went the internet route because it's generally faster)

Second (related) question: An undergraduate friend of mine is writing a
final term paper on addiction, and her supervisor asked her to get into
definitions of addiction (social and scientific)  I know that White's book
covers that, if the paper that he presented in Philadelphia in 1998 is any
indication.  I've dug up a few other relevant papers for my friend.  If
anyone has any suggestions for her, please let me know.

Thanks.

Dan M.
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Dan Malleck, Ph.D.
Department of Community Health Sciences
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
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