The Journal of Inebriety (1876-1914): history, topical analysis, and photographic images

ABSTRACT Aims  The publication of the Journal of Inebriety (1876–1914) chronicled the rise and fall of the first era of organized addiction medicine in the United States. Methods  Findings from historical research, a content analysis of the Journal's 35 volumes and 141 issues and images from th...

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Published in:Addiction (Abingdon, England) England), 2007-01, Vol.102 (1), p.15-23
Main Authors: Weiner, Barbara, White, William
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic journals
Addiction
Addiction medicine
addiction publishing
Addictive behaviors
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Alcohol
Alcoholic Intoxication - history
American Association for the Cure of Inebriety
Behavior, Addictive - history
Biological and medical sciences
Content analysis
Drug addiction
Drugs
Health
history
History of medicine
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Journal of Inebriety
Medical research
Medical sciences
Medical sociology
Medical treatment
Periodicals
Periodicals as Topic - history
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Publishing
Social problems
Substance use
Substance-Related Disorders - history
Temperance - history
Toxicology
U.S.A
United States
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Summary:ABSTRACT Aims  The publication of the Journal of Inebriety (1876–1914) chronicled the rise and fall of the first era of organized addiction medicine in the United States. Methods  Findings from historical research, a content analysis of the Journal's 35 volumes and 141 issues and images from the Journal illustrate visually the medical treatment of addiction in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Results  Under the editorial direction of Dr T. D. Crothers, the Journal of Inebriety published papers and reviews focused primarily on the medical treatment of alcohol and opiate addiction within a growing international network of inebriate homes and asylums. Conclusions  The history of the Journal of Inebriety mirrors efforts in America to forge a legitimized field of addiction medicine amid conflicting conceptualizations of the nature of severe alcohol and other drug problems.
ISSN:0965-2140
1360-0443
DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01680.x