"On Addiction is a collection of essays exploring a socio-cultural context of addiction and addiction sciences, complicating ethical questions of control and alienation in the face of addiction. Mainstream addiction science is polarized: seeing addiction either as a biomedical disease rendering one incapable of self-control, or as a voluntary activity engaged in freely, always by choice. Instead, Weinberg argues for flexibility, a new theoretical framework of addiction studies that allows for movement into and out of self-control, through various social and natural processes always in flux. Utilizing an ethnomethodologically informed, post-humanist orientation to the history and sociology of addiction science and clinical care, this collection forms a more holistic approach, an "intellectual gestalt," into the fundamental nature and ethics of addiction"--