Peter, Please send me an email off-list (to [log in to unmask]). (My current set-up does not show the email address of a poster to a list -- is that progress?) Thanks. Ron -----Original Message----- From: Alcohol and Drugs History Society [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Ferentzy Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 5:13 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Marconi Ron - Thanks. Would you know how to get in touch with her? Peter Ron Roizen wrote: >Peter -- > >You might ask Edith Gomberg (who was also at Yale in the early alcohol >center days) about her take on Marconi's view of alcoholism. > >Sorry I can't be more help. > >Ron > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Alcohol and Drugs History Society [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On >Behalf Of Peter Ferentzy >Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 1:47 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Marconi > >I've been reading and rereading Juan Marconin's article "The Concept of >Alcoholism" J. S. Alcohol, 20(2) 1959. > >I find it hard to read, and am wondering. Part of Marconi's critique of >19th century medical ideas on chronic drunkenness is that alcoholic >drinking bouts are thought always to be preceded by depression, >rendering "craving" derivative rather than an etiological, explanatory >construct in its own right (as it is with Jellinek to whom Marconi is >sympathetic). > Am I right? Has anyone written up on this article? > >Thanks, >Peter > > >