What Is Addiction?

ISBN 10: 0262513110 / ISBN 13: 9780262513111

Published by MIT Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Is Addiction?
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262513110
• ISBN 13: 9780262513111
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Leading addiction researchers survey the latest findings in addiction science, countering the simplistic cultural stereotypes of the addict.

About the Author

Don Ross is Professor of Economics and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Harold Kincaid is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Ethics and Values in the Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. David Spurrett is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Peter Collins is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Centre for the Study of Gambling at the University of Salford, U.K.