Addicts are generally regarded with either pity or grave
disapproval. But is being addicted to something necessarily bad? We
categorise addiction as unnatural, diseased and self-destructive.
We demonise pleasure and desire, and view the addict as physically
and morally damaged. In asserting that the 'wrongness' of addiction
is not fixed or indeed obvious, Helen Keane presents a refreshing
challenge to more conventional accounts of addiction. She also
investigates the notion that people can be addicted to eating, love
and sex, just as they are to drugs and alcohol. What's Wrong with
Addiction? shows that most of our ideas about addiction take
certain ideals of health and normality for granted. It exposes
strains in our society's oppositions between health and disease,
between the natural and the artificial, between order and disorder,
and between self and other.
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