Alcohol . . . Because: Twenty lectures by Mark Keller
Creators: name: Keller, Mark
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Year: 1990

description: Complete manuscript of a book entitled "Alcohol . . . Because: Twenty lectures by Mark Keller" (n.d., edited by Vera Efron). From the Mark Keller Papers.Table of ContentsSection I. About the Nature of AlcoholismIntroduction (by Vera Efron)1.On the Nature of Alcoholism (Presentation on April 22, 1968, at the American Medical Society on Alcoholism, Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, NY).2.Alcoholism: Image and Reality (Presentation on October 30, 1964, at the 62nd Annual Convention of the New Jersey State Nurses' Association, in Atlantic City, NJ).3.Current Problems of Excessive Drinking (Presentation on May 17, 1966, at the Institute on Public Health Aspects of Alcoholism, Columbia University School of Public Health, New York, NY).4.Changing Attitudes toward Alcoholism and Alcoholics (Presentation on January 20, 1954, in Boston at the Annual Meeting of the Boston Committee on Alcoholism, an affiliate of the National Committee on Alcoholism, Boston, MA).5.Alcoholism as Disability (Presentation on December 1, 1966, at the Seminar on Comprehensive State­wide Planning for Vocational Rehabilitation, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ).Section II. About Science and Research6.Trends in Alcoholism Research (Presentation on May 8, 1964, at the Summer Course on Alcohol and Problems of Addiction, University of Western Ontario in association with the Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada). 7.Alcoholism: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding (Presentation on August 29, 1962, at Springfield Hospital, Sykesville MD. The same talk, with a somewhat shorter introduction and concluding statements, was delivered on April 2, 1958, at the Professional Association on Alcoholism in Boston, MA).8.Open Areas for Basic Research in Alcoholism (Presentation on 25 May 1965 at the Workshop on Research in Alcoholism, sponsored by the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, Rochester, NY).9.The Scientific Approach to Alcohol Problems: A Tribute to E. M. Jellinek (Presentation on August 15, 1966, at the International Symposium on Alcohol and Alcoholism, Medical School of the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile).Section III. About Statistics and Statwistics10.Some Measures of Drinking in the United States and Certain Other Countries: Problems of Interpretation of Statistics (This lecture was presented, with modifications and updates annually (1953-61) in July, first at the Yale Summer School of Alcohol Studies, New Haven, CT, and later (beginning in 1962) at the Rutgers Summer School of Alcohol Studies, New Brunswick, NJ). 11.Estimating about Alcoholism (Presentation on July 18, 1966, at the Alumni Institute, Summer School of Alcohol Studies, at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ).12.Alcoholism: Scope of the Problem (Presentation on April 10, 1964, at the annual meeting at the National Council on Alcoholism, New York, NY). 13.The Prevalence of Alcoholism in Washington (Presentation on January 25, 1963, before the Washington, DC Council of Alcoholism, Washington, DC. Portions of this lecture that parallel the discussion of the Jellinek Estimation Formula and can be found in other chapters have been omitted).Section IV. About Literature and Documentation14.Problems of a Scientific Alcohol Literature (Presentation on 25 July 1953 at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the North American Association of Alcoholism Problems, at that time known as the National States' Conference on Alcoholism, New Haven, CT).15.The Language of Alcohol Problems (Presentation in August 1954, at the Research Symposium sponsored by the Ontario Alcoholism Research Foundation in connection with the 5th International Congress on Mental Health in Toronto).16.Documentation of an Interdisciplinary Field of Study: Alcohol Problems (Presentation on August 30, 1971, at the ISLIC International Conference on Information Science, Tel Aviv, Israel).Section V. About This and That17.Cultural Aspects of Drinking and Alcoholism (Presentation on October 29, 1958, before the Commission on Temperance Policy and Program of the United Church of Canada in Toronto, Ontario).18.Alcohol and Food in Health and Disease: Some Historical Perspectives (Presentation on January 12, 1966, as the dinner talk at the Conference on Alcohol in Health and Disease of the New York Academy of Sciences).19.The Great Jewish Drink Mystery (Presentation on April 19, 1967, at the Luncheon Meeting of the Hillel Faculty Group, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ).20.Alcohol . . . Because (Presentation on June 27, 1973, at the Convention of the Canadian Association of Provincial Liquor Commissions, St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia).