Making Animals Alcoholic

Shifting Laboratory Models of Addiction

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4002001
AutoresEdmund Ramsden (autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen51
Número2
Páginas164-194
Fecha de publicación2015-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-5061 • E-ISSN: 1520-6696
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/jhbs.21715
PMID25740698
PMCIDPMC4409838
OpenAlexW1526935670
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas123

The use of animals as experimental organisms has been critical to the development of addiction research from the nineteenth century. They have been used as a means of generating reliable data regarding the processes of addiction that was not available from the study of human subjects. Their use, however, has been far from straightforward. Through focusing on the study of alcoholism, where the nonhuman animal proved a most reluctant collaborator, this paper will analyze the ways in which scientists attempted to deal with its determined sobriety and account for their consistent failure to replicate the volitional consumption of ethanol to the point of physical dependency. In doing so, we will see how the animal model not only served as a means of interrogating a complex pathology, but also came to embody competing definitions of alcoholism as a disease process, and alternative visions for the very structure and purpose of a research field

Addiction · Alcohol addiction · Animal model · Cognitive science · Dependency (UML · Field (mathematics · Psychotherapist · Sobriety · Sociology · Vision · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Medicine · Neuroscience · Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior · Psychology