MAKING ANIMALS ALCOHOLIC: SHIFTING LABORATORY MODELS OF ADDICTION

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