Tag Archives: interdisciplinarity

Addiction, History and Historians: David Courtwright replies

Posted on March 13, 2012 by

Editor’s Note:  We’ve been very pleased to post a series of responses to David’s Courtwright’s essay on addiction, history and historians.  Now that Nancy Campbell, Alex Mold, Daniel Bradburd, and Samuel Roberts have all had their say, it seems fitting … Continue reading →

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Addiction, History and Historians: Samuel Roberts’ Response

Posted on March 12, 2012 by

Editor’s Note: Today, we present the final set of reflections in our Points symposium on addiction, history and historians.  Last week’s reflections on David Courtwright’s essay included thoughtful posts by Nancy Campbell, Alex Mold, and Daniel Bradburd.  Our final essay … Continue reading →

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Addiction, History and Historians: Daniel Bradburd’s Response

Posted on March 8, 2012 by

Editor’s Note: Our symposium on addiction, history and historians continues today, with a response to David Courtwright from Prof. Daniel Bradburd.  If you’re just catching up with our series, start with David’s essay first.  Readers may also wish to review … Continue reading →

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Addiction, History and Historians: Alex Mold’s Response

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

Editor’s Note: Our roundtable on addiction, history and historians continues with a commentary on David Courtwright’s essay from Dr. Alex Mold.  Alex is currently Lecturer in History at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where she has been … Continue reading →

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Addiction, History and Historians: Nancy Campbell’s Response

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

Editor’s Note: This week, Points offers readers a series of responses to David Courtwright’s reflections on history, historians, and addiction.  Today’s first entry comes from Nancy Campbell, a Points Contributing Editor.     David Courtwright’s prose sparkles with wit and insight. The current … Continue reading →

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Addiction, History and Historians: A Symposium

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

This month, the journal Addiction published an essay by David Courtwright, “Addiction and the Science of History.”  For readers unfamiliar with the journal, Addiction is one of the oldest and most influential interdisciplinary journals focusing on issues related to substance abuse … Continue reading →

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Points on Blogs: Understanding Society

Posted on September 15, 2011 by

There’s plenty of self-promoting, self-referential nonsense out there in the blogosphere.  When it came time to thinking about “Points on Blogs,” well…let’s just say that your editor did not feel this feature needed to promote the self-promoting, or add layers … Continue reading →

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Teaching Points: “Hooked: Addiction in American Culture”: Commentary on the Class

Posted on September 7, 2011 by

In the second half of her post to the “Teaching Points” series, Contributing Editor Michelle McClellan reflects on how interdisciplinarity works–and doesn’t– in the undergraduate classroom. “So how many of these drugs have you done?”  It was the first day … Continue reading →

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Teaching Points: Culture, Medicine, & Society: Commentary on the Class

Posted on August 31, 2011 by

Editor’s Note: In the second part of our inaugural post to the “Teaching Points” series, Contributing Editor Joe Gabriel ruminates on teaching to both medical students and PhD candidates in the humanities. Yesterday I posted the syllabus to a class … Continue reading →

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Reminder: Pub/Street/Meds is Going Fast

Posted on May 10, 2011 by

The window is closing fast for next month’s scintillating Alcohol and Drugs History Society Conference on The Pub, the Street, and the Medicine Cabinet, 24-26 June in Buffalo, New York.  By “window” in this instance we mostly mean “conference hotel … Continue reading →

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