American Journal of Bioethics 7 (1):29 – 32 (2007)
|Abstract||The author comments on the article “The neurobiology
of addiction: Implications for voluntary control of behavior,‘
by S. E. Hyman. Hyman presents that addiction is a brain disease
or a moral condition. The authors present that addiction is a
strong preference, similar to appetitive preferences. They state
that addiction is merely a form of pleasure-seeking. The authors
conclude that the problem of addiction is the problem of the
management of pleasure, not treatment of a disease. Accession
Number: 24077914; Authors: Foddy, Bennett 1; Email Address:
email@example.com Savulescu, Julian 2; Affiliations: 1:
University of Melbourne, Monash University, Australia; 2:
University of Oxford; Subject: EDITORIALS; Subject: ADDICTIONS;
Subject: HYMAN, S. E.; Subject: BRAIN -- Diseases; Subject:
PLEASURE; Subject: NEUROBIOLOGY; Subject: BEHAVIOR; Number of
Pages: 4p| |Keywords||EDITORIALS ADDICTIONS HYMAN, S. E. BRAIN
-- Diseases PLEASURE NEUROBIOLOGY BEHAVIOR|