-Keane's work is thoughtful and thought provoking and incorporates elements of medical history and philosophy.---Psychiatric Services
-A theoretically engaging exploration of the arbitrariness of the field of addiction studies.- --Robert Granfield, co-author of Coming Clean
We assume that there is something wrong with addiction. But how exactly is it bad to be an addict? What's Wrong with Addiction? explores the ways in which our views of addiction categorize certain ways of being as unnatural, diseased, and self-destructive, often working to reinforce...
-Keane's work is thoughtful and thought provoking and incorporates elements of medical history and philosophy.---Psychiatric Services
What is 'addiction'? What does it say about us, our social arrangements and our political preoccupations? Where is it going as an idea and what is at stake in its ongoing production? Drawing on ethnographic research, interviews and media and policy texts, this book traces the remaking of addiction in contemporary Western societies.
What is 'addiction'? What does it say about us, our social arrangements and our political preoccupations? Where is it going as an idea and what is at ...
