Session 2: Living With Pain: The Puzzle of Addiction
Medicine & Public Health
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57m
In Session 2, Hanna Pickard - a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics cross-appointed to the William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy and the Berman Institute of Bioethics - defines the puzzle of addiction along with the choice in addiction moving beyond the debate between moral and disease models; why do people use drugs; how to solve the puzzle in terms of brain, mind, identity, society; and understanding individual differences and the heterogeneity of addiction.
Optional Pre-work:
Hanna’s BBC Radio Four Thought Talk “Understanding Drug Addiction”: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08xbjjb
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