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.
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Table of Content
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
About the author
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.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 207 ● ISBN 9781137552853 ● File size 4.3 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4885793 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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