My apologies for posting comments that slighted the book in question. I
based my comments on one review on Amazon, and should never have done that.
I will still wait until used copies are available, but only because I am on
a fixed income, dictated by the whims of a government that never heard of
Lakatos.

Peace,
John French

At 07:17 AM 5/3/2005, Jared Lobdell wrote:

>Michie Hesselbrock (Zachs Professor of Social Work at UConn) wrote the
>review of the book This Strange Illness: Alcoholism and Bill W, in the May
>2005 issue of Addiction, not the book itself, which (as Maria knows and
>John French remarked) is by me (Jared C. Lobdell).  I haven't seen
>Professor Hesselbrock's review yet, though Aldine (now Transaction) will
>doubtless send a copy to me.  The Amazon.com review by L Cama, though
>praising the book as well-written, seems not to realize that the subject
>is the view of alcoholism as "this strange illness of mind, body, and
>spirit" taken by Bill W, and that it presents a history of Bill W and
>"alcoholism" before Bill W, a scientific research programme (Lakatosian
>sense) undertaken to determine why his "treatment" could be expected to
>work, given present understanding of mind, body, and spirit, with a
>chapter on the 12-Step "treatment" and one
>