The epistemic project of the addicted brain : Towards a socio-historical understanding

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Promoting Vices : An introduction to research on the advertising of coercive products

This book provides an introduction to the study of advertising products that jurisdictions typically regulate due to their potential harmfulness to health and well-being. Examples come from studies on the advertising of alcohol, tobacco, sugary foods, and gambling. It maps the most usual dilemma formulations and approaches employed by researchers. It addresses the subject also from the perspectives of new mediatized life, merged genres, synchronized communication technologies, and fuzzy borders between producers and consumers of commercial messages. The book suggests four problematization foci that the research has typically concerned: content, effect, vulnerable groups, and, policy. It portrays a research field that is underpinned by notions of the harmful effects caused by marketing and of the relevance of pointing out this circumstance in order to achieve a political change. After each chapter the book summarizes some take-home messages. It concludes by providing recommendations to researchers who want to take on tasks in this area of research.Peer reviewe

Scientific progress : The role of innovative qualitative inquiries

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The compartmentalisation of social science : What are the implications?

There is tremendous goodwill and good intentions among Nordic alcohol and drug researchers in sectoral research to uphold active contacts and interaction with basic research and teaching conducted in higher education environments. Still, there may be reason to be concerned over this relationship getting increasingly watered down – a concern that was, for example, raised during the Nordic alcohol and drug researchers’ assembly (NADRA) in Stockholm in 2014 and which was specifically expressed in fears of an inability to incorporate new theorisation. Sector research and the basic general core disciplines are gliding apart due to increased demands and competition. While these demands are shaped slightly differently, they have in both types of settings resulted in a trend of compartmentalisation.Non peer reviewe

The alcohol industry’s never-ending interest in research and policy

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Social causes of depression, anxiety and stress

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Agency as a structuring principle

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Gambling – no ordinary commodity

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Thirty-three years later : Still a new-old journal

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Opioids, opioids, opioids : The plague among middle-aged white Americans

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