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ALCOHOL, SCIENCE & SOCIETY REVISITED
 
by Gomberg, White and Carpenter
The original book "Alcohol, Science & Society - 29 Lectures Given at the Yale Summer School of Alcohol Studies" was published in 1945 and is well known for Bill W  discussion of AA...along with talks given by Dr. E.M.Jellinek. 

       Alcohol, Science & Society Revisited was published in 1982. This book contains 24 lectures by such notables as Mark Keller, Milton Maxwell on A.A. and Rev. David Hancock and is a companion piece to the original Yale Lectures. A 433 page volume fully referenced and indexed. 

                 If you are lucky enough to own the original Yale book this is a nice addition to your collection. If not, it then is a lower cost substitute. 

         Publisher The University of Michigan Press, 1985 4th printing, hard cover

 

 

Here is the page on aabibliography dot com about this book

Alcohol Explored by Haggard & Jellinek 1945

The Center of Alcohol Studies is the first interdisciplinary research center devoted to alcohol-use and alcohol-related problems and treatment. Evolving in the late 1930s and 1940s at the Yale University Laboratory of Applied Physiology and Biodynamics which was directed by Yale physician Howard W. Haggard, the Section on Alcohol Studies, headed by E.M. Jellinek, pursued studies of the effects of alcohol on the body which broadened into a wide perspective of alcohol-related problems. The increasing demand for information about alcoholism led the Center to found the Summer School of Alcohol Studies in 1943. In 1944 the Center also began the Yale Plan Clinics, the first ever outpatient facilities for the treatment of alcoholism. The Yale Plan for Business and Industry, forerunner of current-day employee assistance programs, also began in the mid-1940s, in response to requests from business and industry having to cope with employment shortages during World War II. Another of  Dr. Haggard's contributions to the field was the founding of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol in 1940. Today the Journal of Studies on Alcohol remains a foremost journal in the field and is one of the top ten most cited scientific journals in the nation. 

     The Center of Alcohol Studies was the leader of the movement to recognize alcoholism as a major public health problem and to have the American Medical Association accept alcoholism as a treatable illness, a policy it formally adopted in the l950s. 

     In 1962 the Center moved to Rutgers University. It is located on Busch Campus in Smithers Hall, built through the generosity of R. Brinkley Smithers and the Christopher D. Smithers Foundation. Smithers Hall provides offices, conference space, and laboratories for biological and psychological research. Brinkley and Adele Smithers Hall, an addition to the Center which opened in 1992, has expanded office space, laboratory space, and a new library facility. 

     Over the years, Center faculty have served as consultants and experts for many important organizations and meetings, including the World Health Organization, the National States' Conference on Alcoholism, The Mooreland Commission, The Cooperative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism and the National Council on Alcoholism Blue Ribbon Panels, and helped to develop the federal legislation that created the National Alcohol Research Center Program. 

     The Center continues its research tradition with research programs and pre- and postdoctoral training in biochemistry, clinical and experimental psychology, neuropharmacology, sociology, public health, education, and prevention.

Howard W Haggard click here for link
(he was also one of the founding father
 of the scientific wing of the modern alcoholism movement.)