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Addicts are generally regarded with either pity or grave disapproval. But is being addicted to something necessarily bad? We categorise addiction as unnatural, diseased and self-destructive. We demonise pleasure and desire, and view the addict as physically and morally damaged. In asserting that the 'wrongness' of addiction is not fixed or indeed obvious, Helen Keane presents a refreshing challenge to more conventional accounts of addiction. She also investigates the notion that people can be addicted to eating, love and sex, just as they are to drugs and alcohol. What's Wrong with Addiction? shows that most of our ideas about addiction take certain ideals of health and normality for granted. It exposes strains in our society's oppositions between health and disease, between the natural and the artificial, between order and disorder, and between self and other.
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Helen Keane is a research fellow at the National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
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What's Wrong with Addiction?
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Melbourne Univ Pr, 2002
ISBN 10 : 0522849911
ISBN 13 : 9780522849912
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What's Wrong with Addiction? (Paperback)
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Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2002
ISBN 10 : 0522849911
ISBN 13 : 9780522849912
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. What's Wrong with Addiction? shows that most of our ideas about addiction take certain ideals of health and normality for granted.This is an impressive work- carefully structured, researched and written . . . a refreshingly lucid account that is both intellectually stimulating and professionally helpful.-Janet McCalmanAddicts are generally regarded with either pity or grave disapproval. But is being addicted to something necessarily bad?These attitudes are explicit both in contemporary medical literature and in popular, self-help texts. We categorise addiction as unnatural, diseased and self-destructive. We demonise pleasure and desire, and view the addict as physically and morally damaged.Helen Keane's thought-provoking text examines these assumptions in a new light. In asserting that the 'wrongness' of addiction is not fixed or indeed obvious, she presents a refreshing challenge to more conventional accounts of addiction. She also investigates the notion that people can be addicted to eating, love and sex, just as they are to drugs and alcohol.What's Wrong with Addiction? shows that most of our ideas about addiction take certain ideals of health and normality for granted. It exposes strains in our society's oppositions between health and disease, between the natural and the artificial, between order and disorder, and between self and other. Addicts are generally regarded with either pity or grave disapproval. But is being addicted to something necessarily bad? Challenging conventional accounts of addiction, this book aims to show that most ideas about addiction take certain ideals of health and normality for granted. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780522849912
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