Critical perspectives on addiction [E-Book]

FRONT COVER; CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ADDICTION; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: SOCIOLOGY AND THE SHIFTING LANDSCAPE OF ADDICTION; WHY A VOLUME ON ADDICTION NOW?; WHY A CRITICAL ADDICTIONS VOLUME?; CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ADDICTION; REFERENCES; PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND THE (BIO)MEDICALIZATION OF ADDICTION; MEDICALIZATION AND BIOMEDICALIZATION: DOES THE DISEASING OF ADDICTION FIT THE FRAME?; ''PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT'': EARLY 20TH CENTURY ATTEMPTS TO PLACE NARCOTICS ADDICTION UNDER THE BANNER OF MEDICINE.

''PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE'': MID-20TH CENTURY BACKLASH AGAINST MEDICALIZATIONNEUROMEDICALIZING ADDICTION: DOES NEUROMEDICALIZATION EQUAL BIOMEDICALIZATION?; DEFINING ''DISEASE'' AND ''DISORDER'': THE PUBLIC DISCOURSE OF DISEASE; BIOMEDICALIZATION OF ''ADDICTION'' AS A REFRAMING OF CHRONICITY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; DE-MEDICALIZING ADDICTION: TOWARD BIOCULTURAL UNDERSTANDINGS; CREATING ADDICTION AS A REAL DISEASE; THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DRUGS, DISEASE, AND DIAGNOSIS; MAKING MATTER MATTER; BREAKING DOWN THE CATEGORIES; NOTES; REFERENCES.

PHARMACEUTICAL INCURSION ON CIGARETTE SMOKING AT THE BIRTH OF THE BRAIN DISEASE MODEL OF ADDICTIONINTRODUCTION; SMOKING AS NOT A REAL DRUG PROBLEM; SMOKING BECOMES A QUESTION OF NICO-RETTE AND NICO-WRONG; FROM A LOCAL TO A GLOBAL REDEPLOYMENT OF DRUG DEPENDENCE; NICOTINE ADDICTION AS A PATHOLOGICAL APPETITE FOR CIGARETTES; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; PART II: ADDICTION INTERVENTION -- RACE AND THE SHAPING OF ADDICTS; TWO TIERS OF BIOMEDICALIZATION: METHADONE, BUPRENORPHINE, AND THE RACIAL POLITICS OF ADDICTION TREATMENT; INTRODUCTION.

RACIALIZATION AND CENTER CITY POLITICS: METHADONE'S FRACTURED LIBERALISMREGULATION & CONTROVERSY; WHITE, CORPORATE BIOMEDICALIZATION: BUPRENORPHINE AND THE NEOLIBERAL TURN; CONCLUSION: BIOMEDICALIZATION AND RACE; REFERENCES; INTERVENTION: REALITY TV, WHITENESS, AND NARRATIVES OF ADDICTION; INTRODUCTION; MEDIA STEREOTYPES OF RACE AND ADDICTION; METHODOLOGY; FINDINGS; ''IN MY HEART, I KNOW IT WAS A SUCCESSFUL INTERVENTION'': THE INTERVENTIONISTS; LOOKING AT ADDICTION THROUGH A WHITE LENS; WASTED WHITENESS; ''WONDER BREAD LAND'': WHITENESS AND THE ERASURE OF SYSTEMIC RACISM ON INTERVENTION.

CONCLUSIONNOTES; REFERENCES; PART III: PUNISHING THE SICK AND SAVING THE LOST -- ADDICTION AND SOCIAL CONTROL; DRAWING THE LINE AT DRINKING FOR TWO: GOVERNMENTALITY, BIOPOLITICS, AND RISK IN STATE LEGISLATION ON FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS; FASD AND PRACTICES OF GOVERNMENTALITY AND BIOPOLITICS; METHODS; RESULTS; DISCUSSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; INTO THE LIGHT: EVANGELICAL REHAB AND THE SEDUCTION OF NEW LIFE; OF BRAINS AND BAD BEHAVIOR; NOTES; REFERENCES; PART IV: LOSING CONTROL -- THE EXPANSION OF 'ADDICTION' AND ITS IMPLICATIONS.

MAKING ADDICTS OF THE FAT: OBESITY, PSYCHIATRY AND THE 'FATTIES ANONYMOUS' MODEL OF SELF-HELP WEIGHT LOSS IN THE POST-WAR UNITED STATES.

Featuring the work of several new, up-and-coming scholars working to deepen theoretical perspectives on addiction and its relationship to social control and deviance, this volume fills a gap in addiction studies by offering critical perspectives that interrogate and challenge traditional and/or mainstream understandings of addiction.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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