Of Others Inside: Insanity, Addiction And Belonging in America

Index

Index AA. See Alcoholics Anonymous, twelve step AACI. See American Association for the Cure of Inebriates activists, 61, 72, 76; see also liberals, progressives, reformers actor-network theory; human agents, 8; nonhuman agents, 8; symmetry between human and nonhuman agents, 8; see also Pickering’s approach addiction, xi, xii, xiv, xv, xvi, 1–4, 6, 9–11, 15–17, 20–21, 23–24, 26, 28, 37, 39–45, 47–52, 55–62, 64–65, 67, 70, 72–74, 84, 90–92, 96, 97, 99–102, 119–121, 124, 126, 127, 129, 130, 133, 136–138, 139, 141, 154, 155, 157, 170, 171–172, 178, 180, 181, 182, 183, 192–196, 200–204; and generic conceptual templates, 119–121, 136–138, 171–172; as complex and versatile causal agent, 65, 72–3, 92, 127, 136–138, 141; as disease, 24, 39, 40, 42, 55–62, 64–65, 67, 90, 192–196; as other inside, xvi, 9–11, 28, 39, 44, 47, 55–56, 60, 65, 70, 74, 90, 91, 92, 112, 127, 137, 139, 183, 192; as particular not generic affliction, 124, 127, 136, 136–140; as socially negotiated outcome, 3, 127, 136–141; as threat to moral community, 11, 22, 26, 44–45, 51, 65, 72–73, 84, 92, 136–141, 155, 157, 181, 192–196; at Canyon House, 99–102, 119–121, 124, 126, 127, 129, 130, 133, 136–138, 139, 141, 200; at Twilights, 154, 155, 157, 170, 171–172, 178, 180, 181, 182, 183, 200; critique of objectivist biological concept of, 4–5, 143, 200–201; critique of objectivist psychological concept of, 4–5, 143, 200–201; critique of psychosocial approaches to, 5–6; Enlightenment and, 23–24; medicalization of, 2, 3, 24, 39–44, 53–66, 67; Synanon, concept of, 70; see also alcoholism Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA), 89–90 Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 53–66, 70, 95, 97, 98, 102, 103, 118–121, 153, 165–168, 175, 194; and cultural diversity of meetings, 103, 121, 165–167; and moral community, 54, 56, 165–167, 194; as source of generic conceptual templates, 118–121, 172; “Big Book’’, 55, 175; funding accountability, 64; “hidden alcoholics’’, 59; in Canyon House, 98, 102, 103, 104–107, 118–121; in Twilights, 153, 165–168, 172, 175; limits of, 56, 61; National Council on Alcoholism (NCA), 60–62; National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA), 62; others inside and, 55–56, 65; Research Council on Problems of Alcohol (RCPA), 57; Silkworth, William, 55; Smith, Dr. Bob, 54; Synanon, 70; Wilson, Bill, 54; see also Alcoholism Movement; twelve step alcoholism, xii, 1, 16, 49, 53–66, 73, 74, 95, 96, 97, 141, 170, 194; allergy theory, 58; as complex and versatile causal agent, 65; as disease, 24, 39–44, 53–66, 170; treatment, 39–44, 53–66, 73, 74, 95, 96, 97, 170, 194 Alcoholism Movement, 53–66; and science, 56–60; and the state, 60–66; and the temperance movement, 59; and the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies, 58–60 American Association for the Cure of Inebriates (AACI), 43 American Psychiatric Association (APA), 4, 74, 76, 85, 86, 127 Anderson, Dwight, 60 Anderson’s four-pronged credo, 60 Anglin, M. Douglas, 69, 205 Anti-Drug Abuse Act, 73 Anti-Saloon League, 56 Ashmore, Malcolm, 7, 205 Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane (AMSAII), 34 219 220 Index asylum, rise of the, 31–37; and AMSAII, 34; and moral treatment, 31–35; and the state, 31–37; chronic patients, 35; medicalization of insanity, 31–37; see also psychiatric profession asylum inmates; plight of, 76 Bachrach, Leona L., 88, 90 Bader, Michael J., 85 Barrett, Robert, 5, 7 Barrows, Susanna, 37 Bassuk, Ellen L., 145 Bateson, Gregory, 5 Baum, Alice S., 1 Baumohl, Jim, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 54, 83, 87, 88 Beard, George M., 44, 50 Beauchamp, Dan E., 59, 62 Becker, Howard S., 6; critique of Becker’s approach to drug-induced experience, 6 Belknap, Ivan, 78 belonging, 166, 181, 193; see also moral community, solidarity benevolent movement, 38; see also temperance movement biopsychiatry, 75–86; see also psychiatric profession Bishop, Ernest, 50 black cocaine users, 48; racism and, 48 Bloor, David, 8 Bloor, Michael, 68, 108 Blumer, Herbert, 5 Bogdan, Robert, 135 Bourdieu, Pierre, xv, xvi, 7, 65, 199 Bowman, Karl M., 57 Boyer, Paul, 25, 37, 38 Brecher, Edward M., 44 Brown, Phil, 78, 84, 86, 127 Burnham, John C., 56 Burt, Martha R., 16, 101 Cahill, Spencer...