Critical perspectives on addiction
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...
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| Other Authors | |
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald,
2012.
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| Series | Advances in medical sociology ;
v. 14. |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781780529318 |
| ISSN | 1057-6290 ; |
| DOI | 10.1108/S1057-6290(2012)14 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xxv, 243 p.) : ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Medicalization and biomedicalization : does the diseasing of addiction fit the frame? / Nancy D. Campbell
- De-medicalizing addiction : toward biocultural understandings / Kerwin Kaye
- Pharmaceutical incursion on cigarette smoking at the birth of the brain disease model of addiction / Mark Elam
- Two tiers of biomedicalization : Methadone, Buprenorphine, and the racial politics of addiction treatment / Helena Hansen, Samuel K. Roberts
- Intervention : reality TV, whiteness, and narratives of addiction / Jessie Daniels
- Drawing the line at drinking for two : governmentality, biopolitics, and risk in state legislation on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders Deborah A. Potter
- Into the light : evangelical rehab and the seduction of new life / Teresa Gowan, Jack Atmore
- Making addicts of the fat : obesity, psychiatry and the 'fatties anonymous' model of self-help weight loss in the post-war United States / Jessica Parr, Nicolas Rasmussen
- 'I just couldn't keep it in control anymore' : weight loss surgery, food addiction, and anti-fat stigma / Zoë Meleo-Erwin
- Video game addiction : user perspectives / Luther Elliott, Geoffrey Ream, Elizabeth McGinsky.