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Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (Paperback): Nick Heather, Matt Field, Sally Satel, Antony Moss Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (Paperback)
Nick Heather, Matt Field, Sally Satel, Antony Moss
R2,280 Discovery Miles 22 800 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

* A ground-breaking attempt to bring together in one volume all the various strands of this fundamental debate about the nature of what is called addiction. * Presents a robust evaluation of the BDMA * Neatly divided into four sections representing For; Against; Unsure; Alternative Ways of Understanding and Responding to Addiction

Managing Welfare Reform in New York City (Paperback, New): E.S. Savas Managing Welfare Reform in New York City (Paperback, New)
E.S. Savas; Contributions by Burt S. Barnow, Douglas J. Besharov, James Clark, Sanders Korenman, …
R1,513 Discovery Miles 15 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Welfare reform was a spectacular success in New York under Mayor Giuliani despite the city's history of liberal social programs and its huge, entrenched welfare system. The city reduced the numbers on welfare from 1,120,000 to 460,000 by changing the organizational culture, protecting against fraud, insisting on 'work first,' adapting information technology, and contracting for job placement. The organizational culture was transformed by bold leadership that changed the welfare agency's mission and goals, overcame internal resistance, and prevailed over politicians who had a vested interest in the status quo and the media that were opposed to welfare reform. Welfare fraud was largely eliminated by dropping from the rolls those who were working and could not appear for in-person interviews, by fingerprinting recipients to catch those enrolled under multiple identities and those receiving welfare checks from other jurisdictions, by uncovering hidden income, by enrolling new applicants only after thorough investigation, and by tightening controls to prevent fraud by corrupt employees. JobStat, a computer-based system modeled after the Police Department's system used to track precinct activity, was developed to track the status of welfare recipients and to monitor the performance of the 'Job Centers,' which were formerly called welfare offices. JobStat focused the attention of department personnel on performance indicators rather than on minutely specified rules. The Giuliani administration's major contribution to national welfare reform was the creation of the only system in the country with large-scale, alternative work arrangements that was able to acculturate large numbers of the never-employed to the world of work.

Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (Hardcover): Nick Heather, Matt Field, Sally Satel, Antony Moss Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (Hardcover)
Nick Heather, Matt Field, Sally Satel, Antony Moss
R6,780 Discovery Miles 67 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

* A ground-breaking attempt to bring together in one volume all the various strands of this fundamental debate about the nature of what is called addiction. * Presents a robust evaluation of the BDMA * Neatly divided into four sections representing For; Against; Unsure; Alternative Ways of Understanding and Responding to Addiction

Brainwashed - The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience (Paperback): Sally Satel, Scott Lilienfeld Brainwashed - The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience (Paperback)
Sally Satel, Scott Lilienfeld
R551 Discovery Miles 5 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What can't neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI,functional magnetic resonance imaging,was introduced in the early 1990s, brain scans have been used to help politicians understand and manipulate voters, determine guilt in court cases, and make sense of everything from musical aptitude to romantic love. But although brain scans and other neurotechnologies have provided ground-breaking insights into the workings of the human brain, the increasingly fashionable idea that they are the most important means of answering the enduring mysteries of psychology is misguided,and potentially dangerous.In Brainwashed , psychiatrist and AEI scholar Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld reveal how many of the real-world applications of human neuroscience gloss over its limitations and intricacies, at times obscuring,rather than clarifying,the myriad factors that shape our behaviour and identities. Brain scans, Satel and Lilienfeld show, are useful but often ambiguous representations of a highly complex system. Each region of the brain participates in a host of experiences and interacts with other regions, so seeing one area light up on an fMRI in response to a stimulus doesn't automatically indicate a particular sensation or capture the higher cognitive functions that come from those interactions. The narrow focus on the brain's physical processes also assumes that our subjective experiences can be explained away by biology alone. As Satel and Lilienfeld explain, this neurocentric" view of the mind risks undermining our most deeply held ideas about selfhood, free will, and personal responsibility, putting us at risk of making harmful mistakes, whether in the courtroom, interrogation room, or addiction treatment clinic. A provocative account of our obsession with neuroscience, Brainwashed brilliantly illuminates what contemporary neuroscience and brain imaging can and cannot tell us about ourselves, providing a much-needed reminder about the many factors that make us who we are.

One Nation Under Therapy - How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance (Paperback): Christina Hoff Sommers, Sally Satel One Nation Under Therapy - How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance (Paperback)
Christina Hoff Sommers, Sally Satel
R609 R558 Discovery Miles 5 580 Save R51 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. In recent decades, however, we have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdeveloped, psychically frail, and requiring the ministrations of mental health professionals. Today---with a book for every ailment, a lawsuit for every grievance and a TV show for every conceivable problem---we are at risk of degrading our native ability to cope with life's challenges.
Drawing on established science and common sense, Christina Sommers and Dr. Sally Satel reveal how "therapism" and the burgeoning trauma industry have come to pervade our lives, with a host of troubling consequences, including:
*The myth of stressed-out, homework-burdened, hyper-competitive, and depressed schoolchildren in need of therapy and medication
*The loss of moral bearings in our approach to lying, crime, and addiction
*The unasked-for "grief counselors" who descend on bereaved families, schools, and communities following a tragedy
Intelligent, provocative, and wryly amusing, "One Nation Under Therapy" demonstrates that "talking about" problems is no substitute for confronting them.

Drug Addiction and Drug Policy - The Struggle to Control Dependence (Hardcover): Philip B Heymann, William N. Brownsberger Drug Addiction and Drug Policy - The Struggle to Control Dependence (Hardcover)
Philip B Heymann, William N. Brownsberger; Contributions by David Boyum, Jonathan Caulkins, Gene M. Heyman, …
R1,766 Discovery Miles 17 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is the culmination of five years of impassioned conversations among distinguished scholars in law, public policy, medicine, and biopsychology, about the most difficult questions in drug policy and the study of addictions. As these intensely argued chapters show, the obvious answers are always alluring but frequently wrong.

Do drug addicts have an illness, or is their addiction under their control? Should they be treated as patients, or as criminals? Challenging the conventional wisdom in both the psychiatric community and the enforcement community, the authors show the falsity of these standard dichotomies. They argue that the real question is how coercion and support can be used together to steer addicts toward productive life.

Written in clear and forceful language, without ideological blinkers and with close attention to empirical data, this book has something to teach both novice and expert in the fields of drug addiction and drug policy. The authors' resistance to sloganeering from right or left will raise the quality of public discussion of a complex issue, and contribute to the management of one of the most painful and enduring problems of American society.

Health and Income Inequality Hypothesis - A Doctrine in Search of Data (Paperback, illustrated edition): Nicholas Eberstadt,... Health and Income Inequality Hypothesis - A Doctrine in Search of Data (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Nicholas Eberstadt, Sally Satel
R236 R217 Discovery Miles 2 170 Save R19 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The study analyzes and challenges the income inequality hypothesis, which purports to show that inequality in income--not poverty per se--is bad for people's health.

P.C., M.D. (Paperback): Sally Satel P.C., M.D. (Paperback)
Sally Satel
R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From one of America's most outspoken social critics, a searing account of how the wholesale intrusion of political correctness into medicine is creating a toxic healthcare system.. Drawing on a wealth of information PC, M.D. documents for the first time what happens when the tenets of political correctness-including victimology, multiculturalism, rejection of fixed truths and individual autonomy-are allowed to enter the fortress of medicine.

Drug Treatment (Paperback): Sally Satel Drug Treatment (Paperback)
Sally Satel
R257 R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Save R14 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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