Getting hooked
Subtitle: rationality and addiction
By: edited by Jon Elster, Ole-Jørgen Skog.
Contributors: Elster, Jon, 1940-; Skog, Ole-Jørgen.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Addicts -- Psychology.; Compulsive behavior -- Etiology.; Substance abuse -- Etiology.; Self-control.; Choice (Psychology)
Description: "The essays in this volume offer the most thorough and up-to-date discussion available of the relationship between addiction and rationality. This is the only book-length treatment of the subject and includes contributions from philosophers, psychiatrists, neurobiologists, sociologists, and economists."--BOOK JACKET. "In tackling the critical issue of voluntary self-destructive behavior from many perspectives, the book will be an important resource for philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists, economists, and sociologists."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.