Habits: Remaking Addiction

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Suzanne Fraser, David Moore, Helen Keane

   Pages 1-25

3. Models of Addiction

   • Suzanne Fraser, David Moore, Helen Keane

   Pages 26-59

4. Stabilising Stimulants: Amphetamine Dependence and Methamphetamine Addiction

   • Suzanne Fraser, David Moore, Helen Keane

   Pages 60-90

5. Making Methamphetamine in Drug Policy and Consumer Accounts

   • Suzanne Fraser, David Moore, Helen Keane

   Pages 91-127

6. A Field in Disarray? The Constitution of Alcohol Addiction in Expert Debates

   • Suzanne Fraser, David Moore, Helen Keane

   Pages 128-164

7. Assembling Alcohol Problems: Young People and Drinking

   • Suzanne Fraser, David Moore, Helen Keane

   Pages 165-187

8. Junk: The Neuroscience of Food Addiction and Obesity

   • Suzanne Fraser, David Moore, Helen Keane

   Pages 188-212

9. Stepping to the Side of Addiction: Everyday Realities of Overeating and Obesity

   • Suzanne Fraser, David Moore, Helen Keane

   Pages 213-233

10. Conclusion

    • Suzanne Fraser, David Moore, Helen Keane

    Pages 234-242

11. Back Matter

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What is 'addiction'? What does it say about us, our social arrangements and our political preoccupations? Where is it going as an idea and what is at stake in its ongoing production? Drawing on ethnographic research, interviews and media and policy texts, this book traces the remaking of addiction in contemporary Western societies.

• addiction
• alcohol
• neuroscience
• obesity
• occupations

• National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, Australia

  Suzanne Fraser, David Moore

• School of Sociology, Australian National University, Australia

  Helen Keane

Suzanne Fraser is Associate Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, Australia. She leads the Social Studies of Addiction Concepts Research Program and has published widely on drug use, health, the body and science.
David Moore is Professor at the National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University, Australia. He leads the Ethnographic Research Program and has written extensively on the social and cultural contexts of alcohol and other drug use.
Helen Keane is Senior Lecturer in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University. She has written extensively on alcohol and other drug use, pharmaceutical drugs, understandings of addiction and harm reduction. She is the author of What's Wrong with Addiction?

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