Discovering addiction : the science and politics of substance abuse research / Nancy D. Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Nancy D. (Nancy Dianne), 1963- author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Substance abuse.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 301 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2007]

Summary:

Discovering Addiction brings the history of human and animal experimentation in addiction science into the present with a wealth of archival research and dozens of oral-history interviews with addiction researchers. Professor Campbell examines the birth of addiction science---the National Academy of Sciences's project to find a pharmacological fix for narcotics addiction in the late 1930s---and then explores the human and primate experimentation involved in the succeeding studies of the "opium problem," revealing how addiction science became "brain science" by the 1990s.

Contents:

Framing the "opium problem" : protoscientific concepts of addiction

Creatures of habit : feeding the "junkie monkeys" of Michigan

"A new deal for the drug addict" : addiction research moves to Lexington, Kentucky

"The man with the syringe" : pain and pleasure in the experimental situation

"The tightrope between coercion and seduction" : characterizing the ethos of addiction research at Lexington

"The great hue and cry" : prison reform and the ethics of human subjects research

"The behavior is always right" : behavioral pharmacology comes of age

"The hijacked brain" : reimagining addiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-286) and index (pages 287-301).

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472126293

0472126296

9780472901159

047290115X

OCLC:

1103516842

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access