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Addiction: A Philosophical Perspective
Candice L. Shelby
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Description for Addiction: A Philosophical Perspective
Hardback. Addiction argues that addiction should be understood not as a disease but as a phenomenon that must be understood on many levels at once. Employing a complex dynamic systems approach and philosophical methodology, Shelby explains addiction as an irreducible neurobiological, psychological, developmental, environmental, and sociological phenomenon. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPM; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
Addiction argues that addiction should be understood not as a disease but as a phenomenon that must be understood on many levels at once. Employing a complex dynamic systems approach and philosophical methodology, Shelby explains addiction as an irreducible neurobiological, psychological, developmental, environmental, and sociological phenomenon.
Addiction argues that addiction should be understood not as a disease but as a phenomenon that must be understood on many levels at once. Employing a complex dynamic systems approach and philosophical methodology, Shelby explains addiction as an irreducible neurobiological, psychological, developmental, environmental, and sociological phenomenon.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137552846
SKU
V9781137552846
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99-15
About Candice L. Shelby
Candice Shelby is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Denver, USA. She has published in the history of philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and addiction, and has spoken at international venues on a variety of topics related to addiction. She is a popular lecturer in the national addictions recovery community.
Reviews for Addiction: A Philosophical Perspective
With this book, Shelby (philosophy, Univ. of Colorado, Denver) challenges existing major perspectives on addiction and argues that current approaches to understanding it and determining treatment for it are inadequate. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, professionals. (G. A. Blevins, Choice, Vol. 54 (4), December, 2016)