C. Shelby

Addiction

A Philosophical Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Addiction argues that addiction should be understood not as a disease but as a phenomenon that must be understood on many levels at once. Employing a complex dynamic systems approach and philosophical methodology, Shelby explains addiction as an irreducible neurobiological, psychological, developmental, environmental, and sociological phenomenon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-55284-6
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 411g
• ISBN-13: 9781137552846
• ISBN-10: 1137552840
• Artikelnr.: 43893333

Autorenporträt

Candice Shelby is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Denver, USA. She has published in the history of philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and addiction, and has spoken at international venues on a variety of topics related to addiction. She is a popular lecturer in the national addictions recovery community.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Some Philosophical Questions (And a New Theory)
2. Addiction and the Individual
3. The Ecology of Addiction
4. The Culture of Addiction
5. Meaning and Addiction
6. Phenomenology
7. Possibilities for Change
8. Conclusion

Rezensionen

"With this book, Shelby (philosophy, Univ. of Colorado, Denver) challenges existing major perspectives on addiction and argues that current approaches to understanding it and determining treatment for it are inadequate. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, professionals." (G. A. Blevins, Choice, Vol. 54 (4), December, 2016)