... Mainstream addiction science is today widely marked by an antinomy between a neurologically determinist understanding of the human brain and a liberal voluntarist conception of drug use as a free exercise of choice. Defenders of both discourses strive, but ultimately do not fully succeed...

... The core criterion of addiction is the loss of self-control. Ironically enough, however, neither the social nor the biomedical sciences of addiction have so far made any measurable headway in linking drug use to a loss of self-control. Whereas the social sciences have variously reduced addicted...

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...Preface The preface provides a brief history of how the project represented in this book started and has evolved over time. It notes the main contributions the book makes to the literature on addiction. It also notes that the book is intended both as a historical analysis of addiction science...

... is fundamentally focused on briefly describing how later chapters serve to dissolve various antinomies that have long limited research not only in the social sciences of addiction but throughout the addiction sciences more generally. addiction science addiction theory history of addiction ...

... crucible in which responses to Lindesmith and, by implication, the book’s argument more generally have been forged. It thereby highlights in specific terms how scientific work is responsive to the intellectual contexts within which it arises and evolves. addiction science addiction theory...

... This chapter describes how historic welfare debates and the emergent sciences of prenatal substance use exposure both influence the relationship between addicted pregnancy and the state. The ways addicted, pregnant women interacted with and avoided systems of care and control throughout...

... of the daily-rent hotels, increased criminalization of the drug-sex economy and rapid gentrification were closing in on addicted, pregnant women, who sought survival and stability. The radical availability of suffering at this site made its ethnographic study a form of social science vulturism. While...

... Chapter 4 asks how metabolism is diagnosable and treatable, through the sciences of diabetology, nutrition, and surgical amputation. It is concerned with absorption between persons and clinics. Ethnographically, it is anchored in the clinic and works through substances like calories, insulin...