Mental Health and Enhancement : Substance Use and Its Social Implications.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing AG,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Disclaimer
- Foreword
- Instrumental Drug Use
- Embedded in Culture
- Challenges
- Mental Health and Enhancement
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Boxes
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- References
- Chapter 2: Mental Health
- 2.1 Three Classic Views to Make Sense of Things
- Essentialism
- Social Constructionism
- Excursion: What Is Money?
- Social Constructionism: Historical Examples
- Pragmatism
- 2.2 What Is Addiction?
- How Likely Is Dependence?
- The DSM on Addiction
- Two Pragmatic Views
- 2.3 Recent Diagnostic Trends
- Is the Prevalence of Mental Disorders Increasing?
- New Disorders
- 2.4 Interim Conclusion: Mental Disorders Are Not Things
- References
- Chapter 3: Mental Enhancement
- 3.1 The Debate
- Moral Enhancement
- Cognitive or Neuroenhancement
- Central Arguments
- Is it Really About Cognition?
- 3.2 How Common is It Really?
- Comparison to the Past
- Neuroenhancement in the Media
- Medical or Nonmedical Use
- 3.3 Nonpharmacological Alternatives
- 3.4 Interim Conclusion: Hype or Reality?
- References
- Chapter 4: Substance Use
- 4.1 Kinds of Substances
- Three Kinds of Drugs
- Classification Systems
- 4.2 Historical Examples
- Cocaine and Opium
- A Current Example
- 4.3 Instrumental Use
- Instrumentalization Goals
- Theoretical Reflection
- 4.4 Values
- References
- Chapter 5: Conclusion and Outlook
- 5.1 Overall Conclusion
- 5.2 Outlook
- 5.3 Personal Conclusion
- References
- Index.