Chaos and Intoxication: Complexity and Adaptation in the Structure of Human Nature - Hardcover

Dean, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415146143 ISBN 13: 9780415146142

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

Why are people often so unpredictable? Why do they do things which can cause great personal harm even when they know this to be the case? Chaos and Intoxication examines the nature of drug and alcohol abuse, seeking to address these and many other enduring questions through a detailed discussion of the chaotic nature of human existence.
Chaos and Intoxication discusses ideas and research in three general areas: neurobiology and genetics, cognition and collective action, and chaos and complexity theory. These are brought together to develop a general theory of chaos and human nature.
This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in sociology and medical anthropology as well as professionals working in the drug and alcohol support services.

About this title

About the Author

Alan Dean is Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Hull.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415146143
• ISBN 13: 9780415146142
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200