What Is It Like to Be an Addict?
Understanding Substance Abuse
(Sprache: Englisch)
Renowned philosopher and former addict Owen Flanagan provides a powerful, far reaching examination of addiction. His is the first book to integrate the experience of addiction and the myriad social, cultural, psychological, and physiological factors that...
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Renowned philosopher and former addict Owen Flanagan provides a powerful, far reaching examination of addiction. His is the first book to integrate the experience of addiction and the myriad social, cultural, psychological, and physiological factors that create it. Flanagan's holistic analysis also discusses the drawbacks of conventional theories of addiction and pressing questions relating to public policy, harm reduction, and recovery--offering a probing and empathetic view of what it is to be an addict.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „What Is It Like to Be an Addict? “
- Note to Reader
- Chapter 1 The addict's point of view
- Chapter 2 What is it like to be an addict?
- Chapter 3 Explaining addiction
- Chapter 4 Identity and addiction
- Chapter 5 Willing addiction
- Chapter 6 The shame of addiction
- Chapter 7 The phenomenal authority of Alcoholics Anonymous
- Chapter 8 Hope and addiction
- References
- Acknowledgments
Autoren-Porträt von Owen Flanagan
Owen Flanagan is an internationally acclaimed philosopher of mind, consciousness, ethics, and comparative philosophy and author of 12 books translated into many languages. He has lectured on every continent except Antarctica, which he has nonetheless visited. Flanagan taught for 16 years at Wellesley College and for 30 years at Duke University.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Owen Flanagan
- 2024, 312 Seiten, Maße: 0,3 x 0,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 019938892X
- ISBN-13: 9780199388929
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.12.2024
Sprache:
Englisch
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