Recent Select Publications
"Medicalizing Alcoholism One Hundred Years Ago," Harvard
Review of Psychiatry, 15, (2), March/April 2007.
"Alcoholism," in Social Issues: An Encyclopedia of Controversies,
History, and Debates, M.E. Sharpe, 2006.
"Why Addiction is a Disease," Christian Networks Journal,
(addiction issue) Summer 2005.
Alcoholism in America From Reconstruction to Prohibition,
The Johns Hopkins University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press,
2005 (paperback in 2007).
"Days of Recurring Desire: Inebriety and Alcoholism in Patient
Narratives, 1900-1920," The Society for Historians of the Gilded
Age and Progressive Era Newsletter, Fall 2005, Vol. XV No.2, 1,
7-9.
Co-editor (with Caroline Jean Acker) and contributor, Altering
American Consciousness: The History of Alcohol and Drug Use in the United
States, 1800-2000, Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts
Press, 2004.
"Charles Dederich," American National Biography,
Supplement One online, www.anb.org, Oxford
University Press, 2002.
"Contesting Habitual Drunkenness: State Medical Reform for Iowa's
Inebriates, 1902-1920," The Annals of Iowa, Summer 2002.
"Alcohol and Alcohol Abuse" in The Oxford Companion to
United States History, Paul Boyer, ed., Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 2000.
"Exercise and Mood" letter to the editor, Science Times,
New York Times, 17 October 2000, D3.