After the first session of what would become an annual Summer School of Alcohol Studies in 1943, there was a strong demand for written copies of the lectures that had been delivered, but only a condensed version of some of the lectures could be made available under the title Abridged Lectures of the First (1943) Summer Course on Alcohol Studies at Yale University.
The following summer, all of the lectures were recorded, and all but four were edited and compiled into Alcohol, Science and Society including lectures and the discussions that followed them in a single volume.
Representing a variety of disciplines—from biochemistry and psychology to sociology and law—that together constituted the nascent science of alcohol, the 29 lectures were reprinted for the next ten years and served as educational materials in college courses and other institutes devoted to examining the problems of alcoholism.
In 1982, Alcohol, Science and Society Revisited was published by the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies with the express intention of updating the state of knowledge of alcohol studies.
From the Digital Alcohol Studies Archives
- Browse Abridged Lectures of the First (1943) Summer Course on Alcohol Studies at Yale University.
- Read the twenty-nine lectures in Alcohol, Science and Society chapter by chapter from the Alcohol Archive in RUcore, the Rutgers University Community Repository following the numbered titles below.
Table of contents
Foreword / Howard W. Haggard
- Introduction to the curriculum / E.M. Jellinek
- The problems of alcohol / E.M. Jellinek
- Metabolism of alcohol / Howard W. Haggard
- The concentration of alcohol in the blood and its significance, with a demonstration of the alcoholometer / Leon A. Greenberg
- The physiological effects of large and small amounts of alcohol / Howard W. Haggard
- Alcohol and nutrition: the diseases of chronic alcoholism / Norman Jolliffe
- Effects of small amounts of alcohol on psychological functions / E.M. Jellinek
- Drinking mores of the social classes / John Dollard
- Heredity of the alcoholic / E.M. Jellinek
- Children of alcoholic parents raised in foster homes / Anne Roe
- Theories of the alcoholic personality / Carney Landis
- Alcohol and aggression / Ralph S. Banay
- The functions of alcohol in primitive societies / Donald Horton
- Alcohol and complex society / Selden D. Bacon
- Some economic aspects of inebriety / Benson Y. Landis
- Excessive drinking and the institution of the family / Selden D. Bacon
- Alcohol and pauperism / A.J. Murphy
- Alcohol and traffic / Donald S. Berry
- Philosophy of the temperance movement: a panel discussion / Harry S. Warner, Francis W. McPeek and E.M. Jellinek
- The churches and alcohol / Roland H. Bainton
- Controlled consumption of alcoholic beverages / Edward G. Baird
- Legal aspects of prohibition / Edward B. Dunford
- Analysis of wet and dry propaganda / Dwight Anderson
- Penal handling of inebriates: a panel discussion / William H. Maltbie, Ralph S. Banay and Selden D. Bacon
- Medical treatment of the inebriate / Robert Fleming
- The role of religious bodies in the treatment of inebriety in the United States / Francis W. McPeek
- Social case work with inebriates / Sybil M. Baker
- Pastoral counseling of inebriates / Otis R. Rice
- The Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous / W.W. (one of the founders)