HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychopathology, Outlandish, Hypodermic Needle

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 2L03
• Professor: Mathew Savelli

Document Summary

Lecture 2: historical roots of the addiction concept. History helps explain why some ideas gain traction and others lose out. Addiction is a process and is always being rede ned. Need to avoid satires about progressive triumph of debases narrative; history more complicated and facts situated in time and place. The invention of addiction may seem outlandish. Alcoholic beverages produced in china, central asia, north africa for thousands of year, god associated with drinks. Winemaking revered in ancient greece, romans spread it across europe. Throughout medieval europe, alcoholic beverages became food . Safer than water: some form of drugs are regularized. Religious texts in di erent religions make references to alcohol. Although they might preach moderation or abstinence, discourse focused on drunkenness, not addiction: clergy as expert producers and consumers of alcohol. In the early modern world, drunkenness woven into fabric of everyday life.