Owen Flanagan

What Is It Like to Be an Addict? (eBook, PDF)

Understanding Substance Abuse

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199388936
• Artikelnr.: 72315348

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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