What is Addiction

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This is a serious programmatic book intended mainly for an academic research audience. There is food for thought here, some of it quite interesting for clinicians, although there is only a glancing attention to clinical cases, programs, or approaches. The editors who commissioned these chapters (with each one also contributing one) are an unusual foursome of philosophers and economists, one of whom directs the Centre for the Study of Gambling at University of Salford, U.K. They have assembled an international array of faculty (albeit all in predominantly English-speaking countries), mainly from the disciplines of neuroscience, behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and philosophy.