Overlooking Terris

A Speculative Reconsideration of a Curious Spot-Blindness in the History of Alcohol-Control Science

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11057074
AutoresRon Roizen (autor de correspondencia), Kaye Middleton Fillmore, William C Kerr (0000-0001-6612-9200), William Kerr (0000-0003-4280-4392)
Año1999
Volumen26
Número4
Páginas577-606
Fecha de publicación1999-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaContemporary Drug Problems (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-4509 • E-ISSN: 2163-1808
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/009145099902600403
OpenAlexW280344580
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas39

The authors argue that the overlooking or forgetting of a beverage-specific element of Milton Terris's classic 1967 paper linking per capita alcohol consumption with cirrhosis mortality trends sheds new light on the subsequent paradigmatic history of alcohol epidemiology. The historical standing and subsequent citation of Terris's paper are re-examined, and Terris's reasons for not reminding the alcohol epidemiology literature of this aspect of his paper are explored. Aspects of presentation and content of the 1967 paper are also discussed with respect to the explanation of the subsequently lost beverage-specific element of Terris's article. The authors suggest that an evolutionary aspect of the relationship and competition between the modern alcoholism and alcohol controls paradigms in alcohol epidemiology may offer the key to accounting for this historical-forgetting puzzle

Alcohol · Alcohol consumption · Biology · Cognitive psychology · Competition (biology) · Consumption (sociology) · Element (criminal law) · Forgetting · Pathology · Per capita · Political science · Population · Social science · Sociology · Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects · Demography · Ecology · Epidemiology · History · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes