Power, powerlessness and addiction
Addiction exercises enormous power over all those who are touched by it. This book argues that power and powerlessness have been neglected in addiction studies and that they are a unifying theme that brings together different areas of research from the field including the disempowering nature of add...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2013.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39803004*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Powerful connections: three examples of addiction
- How addiction erodes free agency
- Addiction subordinates the interests of family members and friends
- Inequality in the power to resist addiction
- Power and powerlessness in the addiction supply industries
- Reasserting control and power in the process of change and treatment
- Facing up to the power of addiction and those who benefit from it.
