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

博士生：莎拉·W·特雷西；论文标题：《美国酒精中毒的医学化，1870-1919》。在查尔斯·罗森伯格博士的指导下，特雷西女士正在进行一项社会历史研究，研究19世纪末20世纪初试图将酒精滥用和酒精中毒(当时被称为醉酒)“医学化”的尝试。她正在检查马萨诸塞州档案馆马萨诸塞州档案馆马萨诸塞州医院糖尿病患者和哮喘患者的随机病例记录样本，福克斯伯勒镇图书馆《福克斯伯勒报道》中对该医院的报纸报道，以及纽约市县办事员办公室旧记录部门中包含的纽约县普通法院醉酒者的不称职听证会。这些来源提供了至关重要的洞察：1)对醉酒的医学理解如何改变了法律实践和社会福利政策；2)社会控制假说作为机构治疗醉酒的指导原则的有效性；3)醉酒疾病概念在城市司法和社会福利系统中的流行；4)性别、族裔和社会经济地位等变量对法院和专门管理有酒精问题的人的机构对醉酒者进行分类和处理的影响。这项研究承诺对科学史和我们对社会控制过程以及法律和医学相互作用的理解做出重大贡献。在本研究中收集的数据将在本奖项完成后一年内放入社会科学档案馆。

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.