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What's Wrong with Addiction?

What's Wrong with Addiction?

Hardcover

Addiction & RecoveryMental Health

ISBN10: 0814747647
ISBN13: 9780814747643
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Apr 1 2002
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.34
Language: English

Keane's work is thoughtful and thought provoking and incorporates elements of medical history and philosophy.--Psychiatric Services
A theoretically engaging exploration of the arbitrariness of the field of addiction studies.
--Robert Granfield, co-author of Coming Clean
We assume that there is something wrong with addiction. But how exactly is it bad to be an addict? What's Wrong with Addiction? explores the ways in which our views of addiction categorize certain ways of being as unnatural, diseased, and self-destructive, often working to reinforce existing social hierarchies. Under the rubric of addiction, pleasure and desire are demonized, while the addict is viewed as damaged and in need of physical and moral rectificaiton.

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