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 >