Reply to: RE>inebriete institutions A student of mine wrote an MA here recently, which includes information relevant to your student's interest. The thesis is: Denis O'Brien 'The idea of Addiction asa Medical Illness: The Social Definition of the Disease of Inebriety or Narcomania' , unpub.MA thesis, Univ. of Melbourne, 1994. The thesis deals largely with the development of medical ideas of addiction; but the early chapters deal very well with: ideas about, legislation dealing with, and institutions for, "the disease of inebriety" (which covered both alcohol and drugs) in the colony of Victoria [Australia] in the late 19th and early 20th C. You should also note the BRITISH JOURNAL OF ADDICTION (which used to be the BRITISH JOURNAL OF INEBRIETY) which had a special issue on the history of this topic a few years ago; Virginia Berridge was responsible for the historical issue, and she has written on the history of inebriety as well as on the history of opium use in 19th C. England. David Philips Univ. of Melbourne [log in to unmask] >Poster: David Fahey <[log in to unmask]> Subject: inebriete institutions This semester I am teaching a senior seminar on drink and temperance in English speaking countries. One of my students would like to write her research paper on some aspect of inebriete institutions. She has read the paper by Jim Baumohl in Cheryl Warsh's DRINK IN CANADA and also is familiar with the references in Jack Blocker's AMERICAN TEMPERANCE MOVEMENTS: CYCLES OF REFORM. In addition I mentioned the separate articles on the Irish reformatory at Enniss by George Bretherton and Beverly A. Smith. Do ATHG subscribers have suggestions either about other secondary and primary source material accessible to an undergraduate at a middling sized university or ideas about aspects of this topic that could be researched and written up in the next couple of months? David Fahey (Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056-1618, USA) [log in to unmask]