HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Outlandish, Dipsomania, Dry County
25 Sep 2018
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Lecture 2 historical roots of the addiction concept. Ideas about addiction are contested: history helps explain why some ideas gain traction and other lose out. How could this be a new thing: key question: how can we understand the resilience and coexistence of disease model and vice model of addiction, both models exist within the same person, institution, laws, etc. Early modern world: by late 1600s, there was lots of talk about drugs and alcohol (not concern) increases, like opium. Intemperance: understood in moral terms, dipsomania, a heritable medical condition. Inebriety: both medical and moral, late 19th early 20th c the idea that people had to drink became the way of thinking. In 1800s the state starts to actually play a role in everyday lives, more than just collecting tax: passing more laws - regulating social life, police forces grow to make sure the laws are followed.
