The Routledge handbook of philosophy and science of addiction / edited by Hanna Pickard and Serge H Ahmed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pickard, Hanna, editor.

Ahmed, Serge H., editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks in philosophy.

Routledge handbooks in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Compulsive behavior--Philosophy.

Compulsive behavior.

Substance abuse.

Behavior, Addictive.

Medical Subjects:

Behavior, Addictive.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 580 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2019.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The problem of addiction is one of the major challenges and controversies confronting medicine and society. It also poses important and complex philosophical and scientific problems. What is addiction? Why does it occur? And how should we respond to it, as individuals and as a society? Conceptions of addiction developmental processes. Essential reading for students and researchers in addiction research and in philosophy, particularly philosophy of mind and psychology and ethics, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction will also be of great interest to those in related fields, such as medicine, mental health, social work, and social policy. Evolution and addiction history, sociology and anthropology methods and models of addiction population distribution and epidemiology prevention, treatment and spontaneous recovery psychological and neural mechanisms public health and the ethics of care social justice, law and policy. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject. It spans several disciplines and is the first collection of its kind. Organised into three clear parts, forty-five chapters by a team of international contributors examine key areas, including: the meaning of addiction to individual varieties and taxonomies of addiction vulnerabilities and resilience..."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Hanna Pickard

PART I What is addiction?

SECTION A Conceptions of addiction

The puzzle of addiction / Hanna Pickard

Deriving addiction: an analysis based on three elementary features of making choices / Gene M. Heyman

The picoeconomics of addiction / George Ainslie

Addiction as a disorder of self-control / Edmund Henden

Addiction: the belief oscillation hypothesis / Neil Levy

Addiction and moral psychology / Chandra Sripada

Identity and addiction / Owen Flanagan

The harmful dysfunction analysis of addiction: normal brains and abnormal states of mind / Jerome C. Wakefield

The evolutionary significance of drug toxicity over reward / Edward H. Hagen

SECTION B Varieties, taxonomies, and models of addiction

Dening addiction: a pragmatic perspective / Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Diagnosis of addictions / Marc Auriacombe

Reconsidering addiction as a syndrome: one disorder with multiple expressions / Paige M. Shaffer

Developing general models and theories of addiction / Robert West

Gambling disorder / Seth W. Whiting

Food addiction / Ashley Gearhardt

“A walk on the wild side” of addiction: the history and significance of animal models / Serge H. Ahmed

PART II Explaining addiction: culture, pathways, mechanisms

SECTION A Anthropological, historical, and socio-psychological perspectives

Power and addiction / Jim Orford

Sociology of addiction / Richard Hammersley

The fuzzy boundaries of illegal drug markets and why they matter / Lee D. Hoffer

Multiple commitments: heterogeneous histories of neuroscientific addiction research / Nancy D. Campbell

SECTION B Developmental processes, vulnerabilities, and resilience

The epidemiological approach: an overview of methods and models / James C. Anthony

A genetic framework for addiction / Philip Gorwood

Choice impulsivity: a drug-modiable personality trait / Annabelle M. Belcher

Stress and addiction / Rajita Sinha

SECTION C Psychological and neural mechanisms

Mechanistic models for understanding addiction as a behavioural disorder / Dominic Murphy

Controlled and automatic learning processes in addiction / Lee Hogarth

Decision-making dysfunctions in addiction / Antonio Verdejo-Garcia

The current status of the incentive sensitization theory of addiction / Mike J.F. Robinson, Terry E. Robinson, and Kent C. Berridge

Resting-state and structural brain connectivity in individuals with stimulant addiction: a systematic review / Anna Zilverstand, Rafael O’Halloran, and Rita Z. Goldstein

Imaging dopamine signaling in addiction / Diana Martinez

The neurobiology of placebo effects / Elisa Frisaldi

Brain mechanisms and the disease model of addiction: is it the whole story of the addicted self? A philosophical- skeptical perspective / Şerife Tekin

PART III Consequences, responses, and the meaning of addiction

SECTION A Listening and relating to addicts

The Outcasts Project: humanizing heroin users through documentary photography and photo-elicitation / Aaron Goodman

Our stories, our knowledge: the importance of addicts’ epistemic authority in treatment / Peg O’Connor

Reactive attitudes, relationships, and addiction / Jeanette Kennett

SECTION B Prevention, treatment, and spontaneous recovery

Contingency management approaches / Kristyn Zajac

Twelve-step fellowship and recovery from addiction / John F. Kelly

Opioid substitution treatment and harm minimization approaches / Mark K. Greenwald

Self-change: genesis and functions of a concept / Harald Klingemann

SECTION C Ethics, law, and policy

Addiction: a structural problem of modern global society / Bruce K. Alexander

Don’t be fooled by the euphemistic language attesting to a gentler war on drugs / Carl L. Hart

Drug legalization and public health: general issues, and the case of cannabis / Robin Room

Addiction and drug (de)criminalization / Douglas Husak

Criminal law and addiction / Stephen J. Morse

Addiction and mandatory treatment / Steve Matthews.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-42340-2

1-315-68919-7

1-317-42341-0

9781315689197 (electronic book)

9781315689197

OCLC:

1005185914