What Is Addiction?
Ross, Don
ISBN 10: 0262513110 ISBN 13: 9780262513111
Published by MIT Press, 2010
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Synopsis:
Leading addiction researchers survey the latest findings in addiction science, countering the simplistic cultural stereotypes of the addict.
About the Authors:
Don Ross is Professor of Economics and Dean of Commerce at the University of Cape Town, and Research Fellow in the Center for Economic Analysis of Risk at Georgia State University. He is the author of Economic Theory and Cognitive Science: Microexplanation (MIT Press, 2005), companion volume to Midbrain Mutiny.
Harold Kincaid is Professor in the School of Economics and Director of the Research Unit in Behavioural Economics and Neuroeconomics at the University of Cape Town. He is the coeditor of Distributed Cognition and the Will: Individual Volition and Social Context and What Is Addiction? (both published by the MIT Press).
David Spurrett is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Peter Collins is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Centre for the Study of Gambling at the University of Salford, U.K.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: What Is Addiction?
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good