Mainstream addiction science either sees addiction as a biomedical disease that renders one incapable of self-control, or as a voluntary practice engaged in freely. In On Addiction, Darin Weinberg shows how this dynamic is deeply influenced by a series of binaries (free will/determinism, mind/body, objectivity/subjectivity) that hinder our understanding of addiction.
Mainstream addiction science either sees addiction as a biomedical disease that renders one incapable of self-control, or as a voluntary practice engaged in freely. In On Addiction, Darin Weinberg shows how this dynamic is deeply influenced by a series of binaries (free will/determinism, mind/body, objectivity/subjectivity) that hinder our understanding of addiction.
Darin Weinberg is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. He is the author of Contemporary Social Constructionism: Key Themes and Of Others Inside: Insanity, Addiction, and Belonging in America .
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Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Sociological Perspectives on Addiction 2. Freedom and Addiction in Four Discursive Registers: A Comparative Historical Study of Values in Addiction Science 3. Lindesmith on Addiction: A Critical History of a Classic Theory 4. “Out There”: The Ecology of Addiction in Drug Abuse Treatment Discourse 5. Three Problems with the Addiction as Akrasia Thesis that Ethnography Can Solve 6. Toward an Ecological Understanding of Addiction 7. Posthumanism, Addiction, and the Loss of Self-Control: Reflections on the Missing Core in Addiction Science Appendix. An Exchange with John F. Galliher on Lindesmith’s Theory of Addiction Notes References Index Place of First Publication
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Sociological Perspectives on Addiction 2. Freedom and Addiction in Four Discursive Registers: A Comparative Historical Study of Values in Addiction Science 3. Lindesmith on Addiction: A Critical History of a Classic Theory 4. “Out There”: The Ecology of Addiction in Drug Abuse Treatment Discourse 5. Three Problems with the Addiction as Akrasia Thesis that Ethnography Can Solve 6. Toward an Ecological Understanding of Addiction 7. Posthumanism, Addiction, and the Loss of Self-Control: Reflections on the Missing Core in Addiction Science Appendix. An Exchange with John F. Galliher on Lindesmith’s Theory of Addiction Notes References Index Place of First Publication
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