Brian Castellani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine.

"Brian Castellani tells a fascinating story. He has a knack of weaving an interesting court case into the wider framework of the field of problem gambling. He intertwines the medical and legal issues together quite well. In the process he calls for a bio-psycho-social discursive framework as a corrective to the classical medical model. Advocates and opponents of the medical model would do well to heed his call. This book is a timely addition to the ongoing controversy that is pathological gambling."— Henry R. Lesieur, Ph.D., Institute for Problem Gambling and author of The Chase: The Compulsive Gambler

• Acknowledgments PART I Introduction A Note on Strategy: Assemblage and Discursive Negotiations PART II 1. The Birth of Gambling as a Medical Object of Investigation 2. The Trial of John Torniero 3. Constructing the Gambling Subject: Views from within the Medical Model 4. The Defense's Argument 5. In-patient Treatment 6. Gamblers Anonymous and the Gambling Councils 7. The Prosecution's Argument 8. The Gambling Industry 9. Government 10. Diagnosed Pathological Gamblers 11. The World of Inveterate Gamblers 12. The Family: A Group with No Discursive Voice 13. The Judge's Decision PART III 14. Epilogue: Addressing the Problems of Pathological Gambling Notes References Index