Doctoral Dissertation Research in History of Science and Law and Social Sciences

科学史、法学和社会科学博士论文研究

• 批准号: 9112092
• 负责人: Charles Rosenberg
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-09-01 至 1993-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9112092&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; History; Science

Doctoral student: Sarah W. Tracy; Dissertation Title: "The Medicalization of Alcoholism in America, 1870-1919." Under the direction of Dr. Charles Rosenberg, Ms Tracy is undertaking a socio-historical study of the late 19th and early 20th century attempt to "medicalize" alcohol abuse and alcoholism, what was then called inebriety. She is examining a random sample of patient records from the Massachusetts Hospital for Dipsomaniacs and Inebriates at the Massachusetts State Archives, newspaper accounts of the hospital found in The Foxborough Reporter contained in the Foxborough Town Library, and the incompetency hearings of inebriates from the New York County Court of Common Pleas contained in the Division of Old Records at the New York County Clerk's Office in New York City. These sources provide crucial insight into 1) the manner in which the medical understanding of inebriety altered legal practice and social welfare policy; 2) the validity of the social control hypothesis as a guiding principle in the institutional treatment of inebriates; 3) the currency of the disease concept of inebriety within urban judicial and social welfare systems; 4) the influence of such variables as gender, ethnicity, and socio-economic status on the classification and treatment of inebriates in a court of law and an institution specifically for the management of people with alcohol problems. This study promises significant contributions to the history of science and to our understanding of social control processes and the interaction of law and medicine. The data collected in this study will be placed in a social science archive within one calendar year of the completion of this award.

博士生：Sarah W.特雷西;论文题目：“ 美国酗酒的医疗化，1870-1919。" 在查尔斯·罗森伯格博士的指导下，特雷西女士 对19世纪末和19世纪初的社会历史进行研究 20世纪世纪试图将酗酒和酗酒“医学化”， 当时被称为醉酒 她正在检查一个随机样本 马萨诸塞州医院的病人记录 《马萨诸塞州档案馆的酒鬼》，报纸 在《福克斯堡记者报》上发现的医院的报道中， 在福克斯堡镇图书馆，和无能听证会的 来自纽约县普通上诉法院的醉酒者 在纽约郡办事员的旧记录部门工作 纽约市的办公室。 这些来源提供了至关重要的见解 1）医学上对醉酒的理解 改变了的法律的实践和社会福利政策; 2）有效性 社会控制假说作为指导原则， （3）对醉酒者的制度性治疗; 城市司法和社会中醉酒的疾病概念 福利制度; 4）性别等变量的影响， 种族和社会经济地位的分类， 在法庭和机构中对醉酒者的治疗 专门针对有酗酒问题的人 这项研究有望对历史作出重大贡献， 科学和我们对社会控制过程的理解， 法律和医学的相互作用。 在此收集的数据 研究将被放置在一个社会科学档案中 完成该奖项的日历年。