UID:
almahu_9949747510702882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 186 pages)
ISBN:
9781003410263
,
100341026X
,
9781040011058
,
1040011055
,
9781040011010
,
1040011012
Content:
"This book defends a comprehensive new vision of what addiction is and how people with addictions should be treated. The author argues that, in addition to physical and intellectual disabilities, there are volitional disabilities - disabilities of the will - and that addiction is best understood as a species of volitional disability. This theory serves to illuminate long-standing philosophical and psychological perplexities about addiction and addictive motivation. It articulates a normative framework within which to understand prohibition, harm reduction, and other strategies that aim to address addiction. The argument of this book is that these should ultimately be evaluated in terms of reasonable accommodations for addicted people, and that the priority of addiction policy should be the provision of such accommodations. What makes this book distinctive is that it understands addiction as a fundamentally political problem, an understanding that is suggested by standard legal approaches to addiction, but which has not received a sustained defense in the previous philosophical or psychological literature. This text marks a significant advance in the theory of addiction, one which should reshape our understanding of addiction policy and its proper aims"--
Note:
Why Addiction Is Not a Defect -- Addiction and the Will -- Volitional Disability -- Addiction as Volitional Disability -- Beyond Harm Reduction -- The Problem of Prohibition -- Addiction and the Demands of Justice.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Maier, John Thomas, 1979- Disabled will New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032530970
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003410263
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003410263
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