Addiction [[electronic resource] ] : evolution of a specialist field / / edited by Griffith Edwards

• Record Nr.: UNISA996213215903316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Osney Mead, OX ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Science, c2002
• ISBN: 1-280-21346-9; 9786610213467; 0-470-70954-5; 0-470-77608-0; 1-4051-4750-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 400 p
• Altri autori (Persone): EdwardsGriffith
• Disciplina: 362.29
• Soggetti: Substance abuse; Addicts
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Addiction -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- I Addiction Scientists from the USA -- Vincent Dole -- Charles S. Lieber -- John Ball -- LeClair Bissell -- Avram Goldstein -- Howard T. Blane -- Murray Jarvik -- Frederick B. Glaser -- Commentary: Addiction Science in the USA -- II Canadian Addiction Scientists -- Reginald G. Smart -- Martha Sanchez-Craig -- Commentary: A Jewel in the Crown: the ARF, Toronto -- III Australia -- Robert J. Hawke -- Les Drew -- James Rankin -- David Hawks -- David Penington -- Commentary: Practitioner Policymakers -- IV Tobacco Researchers -- Richard Doll -- Charles Fletcher -- Ove Fernö -- Commentary: Pillars of Smoke -- V British Drug Researchers -- Joy Mott -- Thomas Bewley -- Raj Rathod -- Commentary: Nascent Heroin Problems and the Unfolding British Response -- VI High Policy in the USA -- Harold Hughes -- Jerome H. Jaffe -- Commentary: Present at the Creation -- VII Figures from Post-War Europe -- Wilhelm Feuerlein -- Albert Tuyns -- Hans Halbach -- Commentary: Outstanding Scientists in Hard Conditions -- VIII Community Activists in the USA -- David Deitch -- Ignatius McDermott -- Commentary: Back to Becker -- IX Interplay of Research and Policy ; in Scandinavia -- Klaus Mäkelä -- Gabriel Romanus -- Commentary: Northern Lights: The Interplay of Research and Policies -- X The Specialist Field -- In Their Own Words: Conversations about the Evolution of a Specialist Field -- Interviewees and Interviewers -- Name Index -- Subject Index.