HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Outlandish, Alcoholism, Mania
11 Sep 2018
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Lecture 2: historical roots of the addiction concept. Safer than water: religious texts in buddhism, jewish, christian and islamic traditions make reference to alcohol. Although they might preach moderation or abstinence, discourse focused on drunkenness, not addiction. Early modern world: drunkenness normal, including at work, pubs centres of public life, regular intoxication understood as rational choice- no sense it disabled will, by late 1600"s substantial discussion over increase in drug taking, like opium. Arrival of addiction as a concept: by mid 1700"s basic ideas about addiction concept forming. Trotter summarizes emerging thought, proposed habit of drunkenness as a disease of the mind- such as mania: rush challenges idea that habitual drunkenness innocuous. Suggested that hard spirits spjjjjjmmmm ecifically prompted poverty, crime and disease: although trotter medical community to take responsibility, rush thought it clergy"s responsibility. British society for the study and cure of inebriety. Argued that state and medicine had to work together to combat addiction.
