ABSTRACT
In 1945 the Yale Summer School of Alcohol Studies published the landmark Alcohol, Science, and Society, a collection of the twenty-nine lectures used in its classes (Yale University Center of Alcohol Studies 1945). In his introduction to the book, E. M. Jellinek, the director of the school, wrote that in the past scientists had remained aloof from public issues. The Yale School of Alcohol Studies, of which he was a member and which presented the Summer School, represented for him a redressing of this tendency in science. “In a sense this [Summer] School will be a test of the applicability of scientific thought to the problems of alcohol.”
