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Addiction isn’t disease or failing; it’s coping, suffering, self-harm.
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What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine?
a philosophy of addiction
$51.99
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2026
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Summary
Beyond Brain Disease and Moral Failing: A New Understanding of Addiction
A revolutionary new paradigm for understanding addiction
Why do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively? Why don’t they quit out of self-concern? Why does the rat in the experiment, alone in a cage, press the lever again and again for cocaine-to the point of death? In this pathbreaking book, Hanna Pickard proposes a new paradigm for understanding the puzzle of addiction. For …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691253534 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691253536 |
| Author: | Hanna Pickard, Marco Venniro |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm |
About The Author
Hanna Pickard
Hanna Pickard is Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins University.
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