Q:Facts: - death place: bloomington , indiana - signature: alfred r lindesmith signature.jpg - known for: advocacy of a medical approach to drug addiction . - caption: alfred r. lindesmith - fields: sociology , criminology - death date: 14 february 1991 - workplaces: indiana university - birth date: 3 august 1905 - name: alfred r. lindesmith - image size: 125 - image: lindy.jpg - birth place: clinton falls township , steele county , minnesota - alma mater: carleton college , columbia university , university of chicago Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of alfred r. lindesmith .
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alfred ray lindesmith -lrb- august 3 , 1905 -- february 14 , 1991 -rrb- was an indiana university professor of sociology .he was among the early scholars providing a rigorous and thoughtful account of the nature of addiction .lindesmith 's interest in drugs began at the university of chicago , where he was trained in social psychology by herbert blumer and edwin sutherland , earning his doctorate in 1937 .his education there was a mixture of the analytical and theoretical , a balance that would later appear in his drug studies .the work at chicago involved research with interactionist theory , including the research of chicago 's herbert blumer , emphasizing the idea of self-concept in human interaction .