Getting Hooked : Rationality and Addiction
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Overview
The essays in this volume offer the most thorough and up-to-date discussion available of the relationship between addiction and rationality. This is the only book-length treatment of the subject and includes contributions from philosophers, psychiatrists, neurobiologists, sociologists, and economists. The volume offers an up-to-date exposition of the neurophysiology of addiction, a critical examination of the Becker theory of rational addiction, an argument for a "visceral theory of addiction," a discussion of compulsive gambling as a form of addiction, several discussions of George Ainslie's theory of hyperbolic discounting, analyses of social causes and policy implications, and an investigation of the problem of relapse.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521038799
- ISBN-10: 0521038790
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: August 2007
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.67 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.97 pounds
- Page Count: 300
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