HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Outlandish, Teetotalism, Cough Medicine
29 Jan 2020
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Ideas about addiction heavily contested - history helps explain why some ideas gain traction and others lose out. Needs to avoid story about progression of disease narrative; history more complicated and facts situated in time and place. Instead look at different perspectives and parts of addiction. History important cause gives us reason for understanding of why these disorders existed. Not the discovery of illness but about its creation. Key question: how can we explain the resilience and co exitance of vice and disease models of addiction. Long histories of alcohol consumption in most parts of the world. Although they might reach moderation or abstinence, discourse focused on drunkenness, not addiction. Religious texts: words are concerned was not addiction even if they are against it. By late 1600 - substantial discussion (not necessarily concern) about increase in drug. By late 1600 - substantial discussion (not necessarily concern) about increase in drug taking, like opium.
