Beschreibung:
Darin Weinberg offers a new theorization of addiction that incorporates history, ethnography, and critical theory as the means to break the current impasse in mainstream addiction science.
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