Appendix IV — When Public Health Caught Up to What the Doctor’s Opinion Said in 1939 – The A.

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The Lasker Award
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This is a brief reading of Appendix IV from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous — the text of the Lasker Award citation presented to AA in 1951 by the American Public Health Association. There is no speaker share, no personal story, no qualification. It is a straight recitation of the official citation honoring AA for its approach to alcoholism as a public health issue.

The citation praises AA for treating alcoholism as an illness, which it credits with reducing the social stigma surrounding the condition. It predicts that historians may one day see AA as a landmark in social pioneering — a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering, with potential application to many other human ills.

This recording is archival and educational in nature rather than a speaker tape. It preserves a historically significant moment of outside recognition for the Fellowship in its sixteenth year of existence.

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1960s AA AA History

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Appendix 4. The Lasker Award. In 1951, the Lasker Award was given Alcoholics Anonymous. The citation reads in part as follows. The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of...
Appendix 4. The Lasker Award. In 1951, the Lasker Award was given Alcoholics Anonymous. The citation reads in part as follows. The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism. In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with this condition is being blotted out. Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to have been a great venture in social pioneering, which forged a new instrument for social action, a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering, one having a vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind.
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