Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Review of "The Globalisation Of Addiction: A Study In Poverty Of The Spirit" by Bruce K. Alexander Harry G Levine | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Book review Open Access Review of The Globalisation Of Addiction A Study In Poverty Of The Spirit by Bruce K. Alexander Harry G Levine Address Sociology Department Queens College City University of New York USA Email Harry G Levine - hglevine@ Published 23 June 2009 Received 7 May 2009 Accepted 23 June 2009 Harm Reduction Journal 2009 6 12 doi l 477-7517-6-12 This article is available from http content 6 1 12 2009 Levine licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Book review of The Globalisation Of Addiction A Study In Poverty Of The Spirit by Bruce K. Alexander Book details Alexander Bruce K The Globalisation Of Addiction A Study In Poverty Of The Spirit. Oxford University Press 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-923012-9 Review In a 1970s New Yorker cartoon a writer at a small desk pecks away on a typewriter. In his thought cloud behind him fifteen people cheer enthusiastically and say A brilliant achievement. Unflinching. Writing at its most illuminating . Explosive . Long overdue . True vision . Plain speech . Proclaims the failure of our civilization as a whole. The Globalisation of Addiction is that kind of book - and I mean that in the best and most ambitious sense. It earns each of those descriptions from brilliant to proclaims the failure of our civilization. Among the book s major inspirations are works of Erik Erikson Karl Polanyi Eric Fromm Emile Durkheim Phillip Slater and certainly Marx and Freud. There is something almost traditionally European about its combination of erudition ambition seriousness and enormous scope. It is the result of a life s work reading researching and thinking 470 well-written pages with over a thousand .
