Critical perspectives on addiction

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Netherland, Julie
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.
• Σειρά: Advances in medical sociology ; v. 14.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.