A potted history of addiction and its treatment in time and space: Eugene Raikhel and William Garriott : Addiction trajectories. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013, 338pp, $25.95 PB

Metascience 24 (1):59-64 (2014)
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Addiction Trajectories is a collection of anthropological essays that brings a refreshingly human perspective to the scientific pursuit of addiction. This book encourages the reader to step back from the details, giving voice to the experiences of the drug user as they grapple to come to terms with their condition and the efforts of the treatment community. At the same time, the book provides insight into the machinations of the treatment community struggling to understand the scope of their task and to respond to the shifting intellectual landscapes of licit and illicit drugs. The addiction trajectories framework is constructed around three themes. Theme one concerns the changing categories and concepts of addiction through time and across disciplinary boundaries. Theme two represents changes in therapeutic concepts of addiction across cultures and organisations. Theme three represents the experiences of the addicted individual. Conceptualising trajectories captures the shifting natur ..

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