Reply to:   RE>inebriete institutions
A student of mine wrote an MA here recently, which includes information
relevant to your student's interest.  The thesis is:  Denis O'Brien 'The idea
of Addiction asa Medical Illness:  The Social Definition of the Disease of
Inebriety or Narcomania' , unpub.MA thesis, Univ. of Melbourne, 1994.  The
thesis deals largely with the development of medical ideas of addiction; but
the early chapters deal very well with: ideas about, legislation dealing
with, and institutions for, "the disease of inebriety" (which covered both
alcohol and drugs) in the colony of Victoria [Australia] in the late 19th and
early 20th C.  You should also note the BRITISH JOURNAL OF ADDICTION (which
used to be the BRITISH JOURNAL OF INEBRIETY) which had a special issue on the
history of this topic a few years ago; Virginia Berridge was responsible for
the historical issue, and she has written on the history of inebriety as well
as on the history of opium use in 19th C. England.
 
David Philips Univ. of Melbourne
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>Poster:       David Fahey <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      inebriete institutions
This semester I am teaching a senior seminar on drink and temperance in
English speaking countries.  One of my students would like to write her
research paper on some aspect of inebriete institutions.  She has read the
paper by Jim Baumohl in Cheryl Warsh's DRINK IN CANADA and also is familiar
with the references in Jack Blocker's AMERICAN TEMPERANCE MOVEMENTS: CYCLES
OF REFORM.  In addition I mentioned the separate articles on the Irish
reformatory at Enniss by George
Bretherton and Beverly A. Smith.  Do ATHG subscribers have suggestions either
about other secondary and primary source material accessible to an
undergraduate at a middling sized university or ideas about aspects of this
topic that could be researched and written up in the next couple of months?
 David Fahey (Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056-1618, USA)
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