Critical Perspectives on Addiction

• List of Contributors.Introduction: Sociology and the Shifting Landscape of Addiction. Acknowledgments. Medicalization and Biomedicalization: Does the Diseasing of Addiction Fit the Frame?. De-Medicalizing Addiction: Toward Biocultural Understandings. Pharmaceutical Incursion on Cigarette Smoking at the Birth of the Brain Disease Model of Addiction. Two Tiers of Biomedicalization: Methadone, Buprenorphine, and the Racial Politics of Addiction Treatment. Intervention: Reality TV, Whiteness, and Narratives of Addiction. Drawing the Line at Drinking For Two: Governmentality, Biopolitics, and Risk in State Legislation on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. Into the Light: Evangelical Rehab and the Seduction of New Life. Making Addicts of the Fat: Obesity, Psychiatry and the ‘Fatties Anonymous’ Model of Self-Help Weight Loss in the Post-War United States. “I Just Couldn’t Keep it in Control Anymore:” Weight Loss Surgery, Food Addiction, and Anti-Fat Stigma. Video Game Addiction: User Perspectives. Critical Perspectives on Addiction. Advances in medical sociology. Advances in medical sociology. Copyright page.

"Overall, the 10 chapters of this volume offer new insights into the study of addiction, demonstrate that our understandings and perceptions of addiction change and fills a gap in addiction studies by providing the readers with original and new critical perspectives that compete with the traditional understandings of addiction." Bianca Mitu, Assistant Lecture, University of Bucharest. Reviewed in the International Journal of Communication and Health, Vol. 1, 2013