Critical perspectives on addiction

• Other Authors: Netherland, Julie
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.
• Series: Advances in medical sociology ; v. 14.
• Subjects: Compulsive behavior.; Substance abuse.; Social medicine.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781780529318
• ISSN: 1057-6290 ;
• DOI: 10.1108/S1057-6290(2012)14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 243 p.) : ill.

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 look...