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Titel och upphov Addiction and choice : rethinking the relationship
Utgivning, distribution etc. Oxford University Press, Oxford : 2017
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Anmärkning: Innehållsbeskrivning, sammanfattning The central problem in the study of addiction is to explain why people repeatedly behave in ways they know are bad for them. For much of the previous century and until the present day, most scientific and medical explanations of addiction were based on ideas about involuntary behaviour; if people behave in ways they do not want, then this must be because the behaviour is beyond their control and outside the realm of choice. An opposing tradition, which finds current support among scientists and scholars as well as members of the general public, is that so-called addictive behavior reflects an ordinary choice just like any other and that the concept of addiction is a myth. To these polarised views of addiction, the editors and chapter authers of this volume say a "plague on both your houses". There has been an increasing recognition in recent literature on addiction that seeing addiction in these black-and-white terms is holding back a fuller understanding both of what addiction is and of how to respond to it. This book contains a range of views from philosophy, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology and the law on the relationship between addiction and choice. It also examines the implications of these nuanced accounts for theory, practice and policy. The result amounts to a profound challenge to our thinking on addiction and how its devastating consequences cab be alleviated. (From the cover)
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