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Addiction and the Medicalisation of Conspicuous Behaviour

By Martin Harbusch

Addiction and the Medicalisation of Conspicuous Behaviour Medicine

Addiction and the Medicalisation of Conspicuous Behaviour

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Foreword – Peter J. Adams.- 1: Introduction: Pathologising pleasure? – Bruce M. Z. Cohen, Martin Harbusch & Jo Reichertz.- PART 1: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES.- 2: The ecological niche of behavioural addictions – Baptiste Brossard, Emmanuelle Larocque, Nicolas Moreau, Dahlia Namian & Mélissa Roy.- 3: The triangle of medicalisation: Pathways for interactive negotiation of diseases, disorders and addictions – Martin Harbusch.- 4: The communicative construction of addiction – Jo Reichertz.- 5: A Marxist theory of addiction – Bruce M. Z. Cohen.- PART 2: NEGOTIATING ‘ADDICTION’.- 6: The social construction of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ addicts: How relabelling addiction shaped the opioid epidemic – Thaddeus Müller.- 7: Excessive appetites and disarming innovations: The shifting socio-materialities of nicotine and gambling addiction – Mark Elam.- 8: ‘Addiction’ and agency at the threshold of infinite pornographic access – Kris Taylor.- PART 3: CONSPICUOUS BEHAVIOURS AS ‘ADDICTIONS’.- 9: Wellness, addiction and temperance – Richard Hammersley.- 10: Using sports: Constructing extremity as addiction – Lars Arntsen & Nancy D. Campbell.- 11: From medicalisation to cultural embrace: Drug foundationalism versus techné in the psychedelic revival – Tehseen Noorani.- PART 4: MEDIA, POLITICAL AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE.- 12: Addiction discoveries: Hyping and spinning the superiority of neuroscience – Matilda Hellman.- 13: Social media, dark patterns and contemporary discourses of addiction – Cherie Lacey, Ian Goodwin & Antonia Lyons.- 14: The instrumentalization of the concept of ‘gambling addiction’: A discourse analysis of German parliamentary debates – Gerd Möll.- 15: Aesthetic pathologisation: Cinema, psychiatry and sex addiction – Baptiste Brossard & Benjamin Hemmings.
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Number of Pages:
416
Release Date:
2026-01-03
Publication Date:
2026-01-03
Publisher:
Springer
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3032063124
ISBN13:
9783032063120
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
646 g
Height:
153 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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