Narratives of Addiction

Savage Usury

AvKevin McCarron

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Narratives of Addiction: Savage Usury is the first book to argue, in the face of more than a century’s received wisdom, that drug addiction and alcoholism are undoubtedly evidence of individual moral flaws.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-01-04
Mått:148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt:438 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:222
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030884604

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Rättsliga frågor i hälso- och sjukvården inom Medicin
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Mer om författaren

Dr Kevin McCarron is the author of two previous monographs: William Golding, and The Coincidence of Opposites, and a co-author of Frightening Fiction. He worked as a stand-up comedian for many years. He has published forty chapters in edited collections and nineteen peer-reviewed journal articles on a range of subjects including The Dead Sea Scrolls, university teaching and stand-up comedy, blasphemy, prison narratives, tattooing, prostitution, alcoholism and heroin addiction, begging and homelessness, and the Marquis de Sade.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: ‘Define Your Terms’.- Chapter 2: Language and Addiction.- Chapter 3: Morality and Addiction.- Chapter 4: Philosophy and Addiction.- Chapter 5: The Streets and Addiction.- Chapter 6: Prostitution and Addiction.- Chapter 7: Rehabilitation Clinics and Addiction.- Chapter 8: The Rooms: Alcoholics Anonymous.- Chapter 9: Works Cited.- Index.