Problem Substances
Temperance and the Control of Addictive Drugs in Nineteenth-Century Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12970696 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Allen (0000-0003-3490-9960, corresponding author), Natalie Thomas (0000-0002-3714-7626) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-32 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Social History of Alcohol Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-2783 • E-ISSN: 2640-7329 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/712581 |
| OpenAlex | W3156374815 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
During the second half of the long Australian nineteenth century (ca. 1840–1914), drugs were subjected to increasing government control in a process largely driven by the temperance movement. Temperance activism and its highly public campaign against alcohol were the key to a profound shift in the social imaginary of drugs—the common understanding of intoxicating substances—which were converted from symbols of individual deviance to the structural cause of social problems. The temperance movement promoted the disease concept of addiction and lobbied governments for expanded controls on alcohol, a model that was later copied by critics of opium. But more importantly, temperance and its radical attack on alcohol as a problem in itself inspired a fundamental shift in the public discourse about drugs that paved the way for modern drug prohibition. This article uses a series of government inquiries into alcohol and opium to illustrate their transformation into problem substances by the early twentieth century
Addiction · Criminology · Deviance (statistics · Government (linguistics · Opium · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Public health · Social control · Sociology · The Imaginary · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology
Symbolic crusade
Radical Actions
From Inebriety to Addiction
Policing a Free Society
Pure Politics
From Vice To Disease? the Concepts of Dipsomania and Inebriety, 1860-1908
Slavery from within’
Power and Addiction
From Sin to Disease
The Temperance Movement and the Liberal Party in New South Wales Politics, 1900–1904
Notes on Alcohol and the State
Reckoning Schemes of Legitimation
Containing Discontent
Once a Drunkard Always a Drunkard
What Did the British Temperance Movement Accomplish? Attitudes to Alcohol, the Law and Moral Regulation
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |