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"HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ALCOHOL & DRUG USE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY,
1800-1997"
9-11 May 1997
A Conference Sponsored by
The Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine of the
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
19 South 22nd Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America has never been drug free. Politicians and policymakers
calling for a "drug-free" America have lost sight of the nation's
long, if checkered, relationship with alcohol, tobacco, opiates, and
other psychoactive substances. Moreover, the increasingly intolerant
attitude toward licit and illicit recreational drugs coincides with
unprecedented levels of prescription drug use, particularly of such
behavior modifying pharmaceuticals as Prozac, Redux, and Ritalin.
Fraught with inconsistency, contradiction, and partisan politics, the
rhetoric of psychoactive substance use offers much in the way of
hyperbole and little in the way of understanding. This is where
history can be of help. By examining the histories of alcohol and
drug use in the United States, historians can illuminate the
political, economic, and social dimensions of the substance abuse
problem--aspects too often neglected by contemporary policymakers and
clinical researchers.
The Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine of the
College of Physicians of Philadelphia is sponsoring a conference on
9-11 May 1997, entitled "Historical Perspectives on Alcohol and Drug
Use in American Society, 1800-1997," which will bring together
leading younger scholars with some of the pioneering historians of
alcohol and drugs to explore the changing contexts and
conceptualizations of alcohol and drug use in the United States. The
issues examined should be of interest to historians, physicians, and
policymakers alike.
This conference has been generously supported by the Barra
Foundation, the Groff Family Memorial Trust, and the Benjamin and
Mary Siddons Measey Foundation.
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, 9 MAY 1997
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA
7:00-9:00 pm -- Welcoming Reception
SATURDAY, 10 MAY 1997
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA
8:00-9:15 am -- Registration/Continental Breakfast
9:15-9:45 am -- Introduction
9:45-11:15 am -- Session I
"Drug World: Pleasure, Commerce, and the Transformation of
Consciousness" DAVID T. COURTWRIGHT
"The Discovery of Addiction Revisited: Changing Conceptions of
Compulsive Drug Use in America" HARRY GENE LEVINE
"How Does the Nation's "Alcohol Problem" Change from Era to Era?:
Stalking the Social Logic of Problem-Definition Transformations
Since Repeal" RON ROIZEN
"'I Was Addicted to Drinking Rum': Four Centuries of Alcohol
Consumption in Indian Country" PETER MANCALL
Comment ROBIN ROOM
11:15-11:30 am -- Break
11:30-1:00 pm -- Session II
"'Lady Tipplers': Gendering the Modern Alcoholism Paradigm,
1933-1960" MICHELLE McCLELLAN
"Dope Fiends and Degenerates: The Gendering of Addiction, 1900-1920"
MARA KEIRE
"Doctors Can Discover Disease, But It Takes a Whole Society to Make
a Syndrome: Some Reflections on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome" JANET GOLDEN
Comment CHERYL KRASNICK WARSH
1:00-2:30 pm -- Lunch Break
2:30-4:00 pm -- Session III
"The Leprosy of Modern Days: Narcotic Addiction and the Logic of
Professionalizing Medical Authority in the United States, 1900-1920"
TIM HICKMAN
"Orthodoxy and Its Discontents: Morphine Maintenance in California,
1909-1941" JIM BAUMOHL
"Addicts and their Families at Philadelphia General Hospital in the
Late 1920s" CAROLINE J. ACKER
"Sober Husbands and Supportive Wives: Family Dramas of Alcoholism in
the 1940s and 1950s" LORI E. ROTSKOFF
Comment DAVID F. MUSTO
4:00-5:00 pm -- Discussion
SUNDAY, 11 MAY 1997
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA
8:30-9:30 am -- Continental Breakfast
9:30-11:00 am -- Session IV
"Reforming Drunkards in Nineteenth-Century America: A Religious
Therapeutic Tradition" KATHERINE A. CHAVIGNY
"Demons for the Twentieth Century: The Rhetoric of Drug Reform,
1920-1940" SUSAN SPEAKER
"The Language of Addiction: A Professional Tower of Babel" WILLIAM
WHITE
"Inebriates as Automatons: The Medical Jurisprudence of Inebriety,
1880-1920" SARAH W. TRACY
Comment JOHN C. BURNHAM
11:00-11:15 am -- Break
11:15-1:00 pm -- Session V
"From Nicotine to Nicotrol: Tobacco and Addiction in Historical
Perspective" ALLAN M. BRANDT
"No One Listened to Imipramine: Antidepressants as Technology in
Post-War American Culture" NICHOLAS WEISS
"Changes in Clinical Perceptions of Tobacco, 1890-1990" JOHN SLADE
Comment CHARLES E. ROSENBERG
1:00-2:30 pm -- Lunch/Closing Discussion
The conference is open to all, free of charge, but advanced
registration is required.* Please respond by 8 April 1997, either
by telephoning (215) 563-3737 ext. 271, faxing (215) 561-6477,
emailing [log in to unmask], or by filling out this form and
returning to:
Francis C. Wood Institute
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
19 South 22nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Name______________________________________________________
Address____________________________________________________
City_________________________ State_______ Zip______________
Phone_____________________________________________________
*PLEASE NOTE: In order to facilitate discussion, presenters in the
Saturday and Sunday sessions will present brief abstracts of their
papers; copies of all the papers will be sent to those who register
for the conference.
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