Hi Tim -
I'm actually very familiar with all the texts you mention except for
Armstrong's. Thanks for the tip.
Thanks as well for the offer of future assistance. That goes both ways.
Best,
Peter

Tim Yates wrote:

> Dear Peter:
>
> I just saw your query on the ADHS listserv. I think the most
> comprehensive article out there is still Harry Gene Levine's "The
> Discovery of Alcohol Addiction: Changing Conceptions of Habitual
> Drunkenness in America," from THE JOURNAL OF STUDIES ON ALCOHOL, V 39,
> N 1 (1978): 143-174. From the same journal, you might also want to
> look at Mark Edward Lender and Karen R. Karnchanapee, "Temperance
> Tales: Antiliquor Fiction and American Attitudes Toward Alcoholics in
> the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries," V 38, N 7 (1977):
> 1347-1370. Several of the chapters in Mariana Valverde's recent book,
> DISEASES OF THE WILL: ALCOHOL AND THE DILEMMAS OF FREEDOM, offer
> wide-ranging (but I think historically and analytically problematic)
> discussions of the early trans-Atlantic discourse on alcohol
> addiction. Chapter 2 of Susan Armstrong's resent book, CONCEIVING
> RISK: FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME AND THE DIAGNOSIS OF MORAL DISORDER,
> offers some good historical analysis of trans-Atlantic hereditary
> thought on alcohol addiction up to about the 1930s.
>
> I am currently researching and writing a dissertation on theories and
> treatments of alcohol addiction in the United States from the 1870s to
> 1945. If I can be of any help to you please feel free to send me an
> email message.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Tim Yates
> Ph.D. Candidate in U.S. History
> University of California, Davis
>
>
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