As a report of the Scientific Committee of the Research Council on Problems of
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As a report of the Scientific Committee of the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol put it in 1938: “An alcoholic should be regarded as a sick person, just as one who is suffering from tuberculosis, cancer, heart disease, or other serious chronic disorder.” Those doubting that "disease" was the orthodoxy before Alcoholics Anonymous came onto the scene should hie themselves to a good library and read "Drinking and Alcoholism," by Genevieve Parkhurst, in the July 1937 Harpers Magazine . 5 From the mid-1940s on, at first from a base within Yale University’s Center of Alcohol Studies, the National Committee on Education on Alcoholism -- later the National Council on Alcoholism -- actively pushed this understanding under the guiding hand of Mrs. Marty Mann. 6 Few in that era q
