In addition to the wonderful links that Robin has suggested, she
might try looking at how the US National Library of Medicine defines
addiction-related terms, including alcoholism, for their Medical
Subject Headings (MeSH). MeSH are used in cataloging scientific
papers as they are published. This is a controlled vocabulary of more
than 19,000 subject headings. Their new version of PubMed has a nice
built-in MeSH browser:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/meshbrowser.cgi
Brian


>Dan:
>    1.  The book says phone orders can be placed for the book to
>1-888-547-8271.  $19.95 plus $5 shipping & handling.
>http://www.chestnut.org  I have the e-mail  [log in to unmask] for
>the author.
>    2.  Have her try http://www.bks.no/online.htm   It gives links
>to about 600 items, including a secxtion on "addiction and the
>disease concept".  Robin
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Malleck <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: den 21 april 2000 13:53
>Subject: slaying the dragon
>
>
> >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.
> >=============================================================
> >Dan Malleck, Ph.D.
> >Department of Community Health Sciences
> >Brock University
> >St. Catharines, Ontario
> >[log in to unmask]
> >
> >Man occasionally stumbles on the truth, but then just picks himself up
> >and hurries on.
> >                --anon