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Critical Perspectives on Addiction
Julie Netherland
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Description for Critical Perspectives on Addiction
Hardback. Featuring the work of several up-and-coming scholars working to deepen theoretical perspectives on addiction and its relationship to social control and deviance, this volume fills a gap in addiction studies by offering critical perspectives that interrogate and challenge traditional and/or mainstream understandings of addiction. Editor(s): Netherland, Julie. Series Editor(s): KatzRothman, Barbara. Series: Advances in Medical Sociology. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 532.
Our understandings of addiction are rapidly changing. New technologies and biomedical treatments are reconfiguring addiction as a brain disease, and the concept of addiction is expanding to cover an ever widening array of substances and behaviours, from food to shopping. This volume looks critically at how addiction has been framed historically, how it is characterized and understood through contemporary cultural representations, how new treatments and technologies are reconfiguring addiction, and how addiction is being expanded beyond illicit drugs and alcohol to explain phenomena such as excessive eating and gambling and the exponential rise in ... Read more
Our understandings of addiction are rapidly changing. New technologies and biomedical treatments are reconfiguring addiction as a brain disease, and the concept of addiction is expanding to cover an ever widening array of substances and behaviours, from food to shopping. This volume looks critically at how addiction has been framed historically, how it is characterized and understood through contemporary cultural representations, how new treatments and technologies are reconfiguring addiction, and how addiction is being expanded beyond illicit drugs and alcohol to explain phenomena such as excessive eating and gambling and the exponential rise in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Series
Advances in Medical Sociology
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Bingley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780529301
SKU
V9781780529301
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Ref
99-50
Reviews for Critical Perspectives on Addiction
Overall, the 10 chapters of this volume offer new insights into the study of addiction, demonstrate that our understandings and perceptions of addiction change and fills a gap in addiction studies by providing the readers with original and new critical perspectives that compete with the traditional understandings of addiction. Bianca Mitu, Assistant Lecture, University of Bucharest. Reviewed in the ... Read more