Thank you for the information. Peter Ferentzy >From: Maria Swora <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Alcohol and Drugs History Society <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: addiction as metaphor >Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 07:14:21 -0700 > >I turn to an unused old email account, and I find this amid hundreds of >messages. > >In my research on AA, I found it impossible to draw a straight >historical biography on the disease metaphor, but there are antecedents, >going back to Benjamin Rush in the 1780s. > >I published a somewhat related paper on this question: Swora, Maria >Gabrielle, 2001, "Personhood and Disease in Alcoholics Anonymous" Mental >Health, Religion, and Culture > > > > >Don't believe everything you think. > >--- On Mon, 8/11/08, Peter Ferentzy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >From: Peter Ferentzy <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: addiction as metaphor >To: [log in to unmask] >Date: Monday, August 11, 2008, 3:07 PM > >Hi All, > >I've taken an interest in the idea of psychobehavioral ailments as >metaphoric "diseases", and am interested in pursuing the matter in >depth. > >Does anyone know the origins of AA's allergy theory? I doubt that the >practitioner who speaks for them, Silkworth, created the idea himself >(though I could be wrong). > >Then there's the public health model, which draws parallels to infection >control. Does anyone know where this began? > >Thanks, > > > >Peter > > > >