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