Not that I can answer for social sciences, but I convened a group here at Brock of "addiction" scholars--a couple psychologists, a sociologist, and few others--and have found this tremendously useful for my own work and perspectives. Especially in the area of different conceptions of addiction, and also in research methodology. Also, about half of these scholars research gambling, so the issues we deal with converge and diverge in very interesting and useful ways. Dan Malleck At 06:59 PM 3/28/2005, you wrote: >I benefited greatly from the responses to my last question, so I feel >emboldened to ask a broader and more controversial question: what can >alcohol/drug historians learn from the social sciences? The old, sad >joke is that historians are a generation or two out of date in their >borrowings from the social sciences. What do ADHS social scientists >think? What would they recommend historians read? Dan Malleck, PhD Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences Brock University 500 Glenridge Ave St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1 905 688-5550 ext 5108