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Susan Beasy Latto, slatto@d.umn.edu
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UMD News
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH
April 19, 2002 Contact:
Susan
Beasy Latto, Director of Public Relations 218 726-8830
Janelle Wilson, Assoc.
Professor, Department of Sociology/Anthropology 218 726 6364
Gary Davis, Associate
Professor, UMD School of Medicine 218 726-7144
UMD To Present Outspoken
Critic of Addiction Treatment
May 3 at UMD School of Medicine
Stanton Peele
to Speak on "A Moral Vision of Addiction"
UMD will present the annual Dennis
Brissett Memorial Lecture Series for 2002 on May 3 at 3 p.m. in the UMD School
of Medicine, room 142. The public is cordially invited. Guest speaker will be
the outspoken and controversial writer Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D., speaking on
the topic "A Moral Vision of Addiction". Dr. Peele has written eight
books and more than 140 articles and book chapters on the subject of addiction.
He has lectured world-wide and is widely recognized as a brilliant and outspoken
critic of the disease model of addictions. His books "The Meaning of Addiction",
and "The Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment Out of Control" stake
out the intellectual ground for a moral vision of addiction. The mission
of the Dennis Brissett Memorial Lecture Series is "to promote novel and insightful
approaches to cultural analysis and criticism; the social construction of meaning;
deviance; and social interaction processes". The lecture series reflects
the interest of the late Professor Dennis Brissett in the sociology of everyday
life. The lecture series is supported by the UMD School of Medicine, UMD
College of Liberal Arts, and the Dennis Brissett Memorial Lecture Series Fund. NOTE:
TO
ARRANGE AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. PEELE, CONTACT JANELLE WILSON AT 726-6364.
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