Habits: Remaking Addiction

Author:   Suzanne Fraser (Monash University, Victoria) ,  University David Moore (Purdue University University of Manchester) ,  Helen Keane
Publisher:   Palgrave MacMillan
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9781306837507


Pages:   283
Publication Date:   01 January 2014
Format:   Electronic book text
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What is 'addiction'? What does it say about us, our social arrangements and our political preoccupations? How are ideas about and responses to addiction changing, and what is at stake in these developments? These are the questions this book seeks to answer. Using Science and Technology Studies theory and an impressive range of international empirical data including interviews, policy documents, media texts and scientific literature, this book traces three burgeoning areas of addiction attribution and concern: the much feared 'meth' epidemic, new concerns over youth 'binge drinking', and the rise of 'food addiction'. How is addiction being remade in new debates about stimulant drugs, alcohol, and 'highly palatable' foods such as sugar? How might the primary source of accepted wisdom on drugs scientific knowledge contribute to these definitions? Are there points at which the sciences (and the public discourses that rely on them) trip over their own blind spots or repeat unexamined assumptions, inadvertently undoing their own certainties about drugs and addiction? As this book finds, addiction is habit in more ways than one.

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Author:   Suzanne Fraser (Monash University, Victoria) ,  University David Moore (Purdue University University of Manchester) ,  Helen Keane
Publisher:   Palgrave MacMillan
Imprint:   Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:  

9781306837507


ISBN 10:   1306837502
Pages:   283
Publication Date:   01 January 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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