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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Netherland, Julie
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.
SeriesAdvances in medical sociology ; v. 14.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781780529318
ISSN1057-6290 ;
DOI10.1108/S1057-6290(2012)14
Physical Description1 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.