Pathological Gambling: The Making of a Medical Problem / Edition 1

by Brian Castellani

Overview

This first book on the history of gambling examines how it became a major social problem in the United States, and how it was made into a medical disorder.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791445228
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	03/31/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Brian Castellani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

PART I

Introduction

A Note on Strategy: Assemblage and Discursive Negotiations

PART II

1. The Birth of Gambling as a Medical Object of Investigation

2. The Trial of John Torniero

3. Constructing the Gambling Subject: Views from within the Medical Model

4. The Defense's Argument

5. In-patient Treatment

6. Gamblers Anonymous and the Gambling Councils

7. The Prosecution's Argument

8. The Gambling Industry

9. Government

10. Diagnosed Pathological Gamblers

11. The World of Inveterate Gamblers

12. The Family: A Group with No Discursive Voice

13. The Judge's Decision

PART III

14. Epilogue: Addressing the Problems of Pathological Gambling

Notes

References

Index

Editorial Reviews

"Brian Castellani tells a fascinating story. He has a knack of weaving an interesting court case into the wider framework of the field of problem gambling. He intertwines the medical and legal issues together quite well. In the process he calls for a bio-psycho-social discursive framework as a corrective to the classical medical model. Advocates and opponents of the medical model would do well to heed his call. This book is a timely addition to the ongoing controversy that is pathological gambling."— Henry R. Lesieur, Ph.D., Institute for Problem Gambling and author of The Chase: The Compulsive Gambler

From the Publisher

Castellani (behavioral sciences, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine) draws on perspectives of Foucault and Strauss, court cases, historical documents, first-hand accounts from gamblers and their families, and his own clinical experience to explain how pathological gambling became a social problem in the United States, and how it has been made into a medical disorder. He also discusses the impact its legalization and medicalization have had on US culture. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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