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Toward a cultural biology of addiction

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Addressing the issues examined in the introduction, this article suggests an integrative ‘cultural biology of addiction’, which aims at encouraging a continuing dialogue between neuroscientists and those engaged in social studies of addiction. This cultural biology of addiction provides an alternative framework that brings together seemingly contradictory social-constructionist and biologically reductionist claims about addictions.

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Kushner, H. Toward a cultural biology of addiction. BioSocieties 5, 8–24 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2009.6

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