Addiction Becomes Normal: On the Late-Modern American Subject Tapa blanda - 2024

University of Chicago Press, 2024. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Unmarked text. Provides a history and critical analysis of the normalization of addiction in late-modern American society. 224p. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches.

University of Chicago Press, 2024. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 224 pages. 8.51x5.51x0.59 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. <b>Addiction is now seen as an ordinary feature of human nature, an idea that introduces new doubts about the meaning of our desires.</b><br />  <br /> Over the last forty years, a variety of developments in American science, politics, and culture have reimagined addiction in their own ways, but they share an important understanding: increasingly, addiction is described as normal, the natural result of a body that has been exposed to potent stimuli. This shift in thinking suggests that addiction is a condition latent in all of us, a common response to a society rich in thrills.<br />  <br /> In <i>Addiction Becomes Normal</i>, Jaeyoon Park provides a history and critical analysis of the normalization of addiction in late-modern American society. By exploring addiction science, diagnostic manuals, judicial reform, and public health policy, he shows how seeing addiction as normal has flourished in recent… Leer más

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University of Chicago Press, 2024. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 224 pages. 8.51x5.51x0.59 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.