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: Social Science > Sociology > General.; Social Science > Disease & Health Issues.; Social Science > General.; Illness & addiction: social aspects.; Personal & social issues: drugs & addiction (Children's/YA).; Compulsive behavior.; Substance abuse.; Social medicine.

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...