Perspectives In Urban Geography: Contemporary City Ecology

by C. S. Yadav

Overview

For much of the past century, scientists studying drugs and drug use labored in the shadows of powerful myths and misconceptions about the nature of addiction. When scientists began to study addictive behavior in the 1930s, people addicted to drugs were thought to be morally flawed and lacking in willpower. Those views shaped society's responses to drug use, treating it as a moral failing rather than a health problem, which led to an emphasis on punishment rather than prevention and treatment. Today, thanks to science, our views and our responses to addiction and the broader spectrum of substance use disorders have changed dramatically. Groundbreaking discoveries about the brain have revolutionized our understanding of compulsive drug use, enabling us to respond effectively to the problem.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789354394409
Publisher:	Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd.
Publication date:	06/30/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

C.S.Yadav (b. 1942) received his postgraduate and doctoral degrees from the Delhi School of Economics. He had participated in the UNESCO seminar on The Teaching of Geography in South-East Asia held in December 1974 and has also contributed a paper on Uneven Development of The World for a UNESCO publication. He has attended and presented papers in International Conferences. He has been invited to attend an international symposium on urban modelling held in Waterloo University (Canada) in 1982. He had also attended an International Conference on Asian Urbanisation held at Akron University (U.S.A.) in 1985 and presented a paper on Process of Migration and Urbanisation in India. He is keenly interested in urban problems and is at present engaged in studies on slums and cognitive image of The Delhi City. Currently he is a Reader in Geography at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi.