{"id":14,"date":"2015-09-09T16:39:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T16:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ihavebeentodwight2016\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2015-09-14T13:23:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T13:23:02","slug":"research-questions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ihavebeentodwight2016\/research-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Is addiction still a useful concept? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Are alcoholism and addiction the same thing? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">How have people described, controlled and treated habitual alcohol and\/or drug use in different historical settings? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">How have changing interpretations of &#8216;temperance&#8217; influenced social, cultural and political life? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">What can we learn from the user\u2019s experience of \u201caddiction\u201d?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">How did popular and scientific notions of disease, treatment and cure differ?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">How have those notions influenced public policy?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Which substances were\/are \u201caddictive\u201d?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">How did behaviors like gambling come to be labeled \u201caddictions\u201d? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">How does the new \u201cbrain disease\u201d paradigm challenge historical understanding? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Do medical and penal approaches to addiction reinforce or contradict one another?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">How are any of these questions inflected by race, class, gender, sexuality and\/or age difference?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">How are any of these questions inflected by differing national, regional or ethnic historical contexts?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">By gathering a set of geographically and temporally diverse answers to these questions and others, the conference will urge comparative analysis of the way that ideas and practices circulate globally, beyond and beneath the powerful institutions of the nation state that often occupy international approaches to historical investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is addiction still a useful concept? Are alcoholism and addiction the same thing? How have people described, controlled and treated habitual alcohol and\/or drug use in different historical settings? How have changing interpretations of &#8216;temperance&#8217; influenced social, cultural and political life? What can we learn from the user\u2019s experience of \u201caddiction\u201d? How did popular and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ihavebeentodwight2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ihavebeentodwight2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ihavebeentodwight2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ihavebeentodwight2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ihavebeentodwight2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ihavebeentodwight2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ihavebeentodwight2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ihavebeentodwight2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}