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High Price de Carl Hart

High Price

Autor Carl Hart
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iul 2013

Motivația lui Carl Hart de a scrie High Price s-a născut din nevoia urgentă de a corecta miturile despre dependență care distrug comunități întregi, folosind propria viață drept laborator de testare. Putem afirma că această lucrare nu este doar o biografie, ci un manifest curajos care demontează ideile preconcepute despre relația dintre plăcere, alegere și creier. Hart nu ne vorbește de la înălțimea unui turn de fildeș academic, ci din experiența unui tânăr care a evitat la limită destinul de dependent de crack pe care astăzi îl studiază sub microscop. Găsim în această carte o onestitate brutală despre cum un viitor marcat de sărăcie și infracționalitate a fost transformat într-o carieră strălucită în neuroștiințe.

Narativul amintește de Memoirs of an Addicted Brain de Marc Lewis prin intensitatea cu care reconstituie o epocă și prin modul în care autorul își analizează propriile impulsuri chimice, însă Hart merge mai departe, ancorând experiența individuală în eșecurile sistemice ale politicilor publice. Față de Never Enough de Judith Grisel, care explorează mecanismele biologice ale consumului, High Price adaugă o dimensiune socială și rasială esențială, explicând de ce știința nu poate fi separată de contextul în care trăim. În cadrul operei sale, dacă Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior servește ca un manual autoritar de farmacologie și comportament, acest volum de memorii reprezintă inima subiectivă a cercetărilor sale, oferind o perspectivă intimă asupra luptei de a echilibra succesul academic cu originile sale din ghetou. Stilul este unul hibrid, unde rigoarea analizei datelor de laborator întâlnește ritmul alert al străzii, rezultând o lectură provocatoare care ne forțează să regândim tot ce știam despre motivație și liber arbitru.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780670919741
ISBN-10: 0670919748
Pagini: 354
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui dorește să înțeleagă dependența dincolo de clișeele media. Carl Hart oferă o perspectivă unică, fiind singurul cercetător care a trăit ambele realități: strada și laboratorul de elită. Cititorul va câștiga o viziune clară asupra modului în care neuroștiința poate influența justiția socială, totul printr-o poveste de viață care bate orice scenariu de film.

Despre autor

Carl Hart este profesor asociat în departamentele de psihologie și psihiatrie de la Universitatea Columbia și cercetător la New York State Psychiatric Institute. Originar din Miami, Florida, Hart a parcurs un drum improbabil de la viața de stradă la recunoașterea academică internațională. Este membru al Consiliului Consultativ Național privind Abuzul de Droguri și un activist vocal pentru reforma politicilor publice. Munca sa, care îmbină neurobiologia cu sociologia, a fost prezentată în documentarul „The House I Live In”, fiind considerat una dintre cele mai importante voci contemporane în studiul substanțelor psihoactive.

Notă biografică

Carl Hart is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is also a Research Scientist in the Division of Substance Abuse at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Hart is a member of the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse and on the board of directors of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence and the Drug Policy Alliance. A native of Miami, Florida, Dr. Hart received his B.S. in psychology at the University of Maryland, and received his M.S. and Ph.D. in experimental psychology and neuroscience at the University of Wyoming. He and his work are featured in Eugene Jarecki's acclaimed documentary The House I Live In. The film examines the war on drugs and highlights some of the research that Hart includes in High Price. He lives in New York City.

Descriere scurtă

High Price by Carl Hart is a groundbreaking work on neuroscience and addiction

As a youth, Carl Hart didn't see the value of school, studying just enough to keep him on the basketball team. At the same time, he was immersed in street life, dealing drugs and committing petty larceny. Today, he is a cutting-edge neuroscientist whose landmark, controversial research is redefining our understanding of addiction.

In this provocative and eye-opening memoir, he recalls his journey of self-discovery, how he escaped a life of crime and drugs and avoided becoming one of the crack addicts he now studies. Interweaving past and present, Hart goes beyond the hype as he examines the relationship between drugs and pleasure, choice, and motivation, both in the brain and in society. His findings shed new light on common ideas about race, poverty, and drugs and explain why current policies are failing. But while Hart escaped the ghetto, he has not turned his back on it. Determined to make a difference, he tirelessly applies his science to help save real lives. But balancing his former street life with his achievements today has not been easy-a struggle he reflects on publicly for the first time.

Homocide (the inspiration for The Wire) meets Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat, this book applies neuroscience to crime, addiction and the most urgent and destructive issues of our times.

Carl Hart is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is also a Research Scientist in the Division of Substance Abuse at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He and his work are featured in Eugene Jarecki's acclaimed documentary The House I Live In. The film examines the war on drugs and highlights some of the research that Hart includes in High Price. He lives in New York City.

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A provocative and eye-opening memoir, High Price will change the way we think about addiction, poverty, and race, as well as our policies on drugs.
As Columbia University's first tenured African American professor in the sciences, groundbreaking neuroscientist Carl Hart has redefined our understanding of addiction.  His controversial landmark research goes beyond the hype of the antidrug movement to shed new light on common ideas about race, poverty, and drugs, and to explain why current policies are failing.
In High Price, Hart recalls his personal story—and though he escaped neighborhoods that were entrenched in systemic poverty, he has not turned his back on them. But balancing his former street life with his achievements today has not been easy—a struggle he reflects on publicly for the first time here.

Recenzii

“It’s a fascinating combination of memoir and social science: wrenching scenes of deprivation and violence accompanied by calm analysis of historical data and laboratory results.” — John Tierney, New York Times
“Moving and inspiring…. Hart’s memoir… is deeply honest and often painful. And his account of the ways in which scientific evidence has been ignored in the war on drugs is as alarming as it is fascinating.” — Boston Globe
“Hart’s account of rising from the projects to the ivory tower is as poignant as his call to change the way society thinks about race, drugs and poverty.” — Scientific American
“A hard-hitting attack on current drug policy by…a neuroscientist who grew up on the streets of one of Miami’s toughest neighborhoods…An eye-opening, absorbing, complex story of scientific achievement in the face of overwhelming odds.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A refreshing new analysis of drug use that reveals how common misconceptions about illegal drugs are far too often not based on empirical evidence. . . . . [A] thought-provoking…[and] important work on substance abuse.” — Library Journal (starred review)
“Combining memoir, popular science, and public policy, Hart’s study lambasts current drug laws as draconian and repressive…. His is a provocative clarion call for students of sociology and policy-makers alike.” — Publishers Weekly
“It’s not every day you read a book that blows the lid off everything you’ve ever been taught about drugs, but Dr. Carl Hart’s recent work, High Price, does just that. Part memoir, part myth-buster, this fast-paced read details his journey from a violent Miami ghetto to the halls of one of the world’s most prestigious universities. Chapter by chapter Dr. Hart dismantles myths about crack, meth, and other drugs, while offering a biting critique of current drug policy.” — Huffington Post
“Perhaps nowhere has a voice been more resonant in a single place than in Dr. Carl Hart’s profoundly impacting new memoir, High Price.” — Ebony.com
“In his new book High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society, Carl Hart blows apart the most common myths about drugs and their impact on society.” — Kristen Gwynne, Salon.com
“Hart’s autobiography weaves personal memoir, Drug Science 101, and enlightened discussions of American racial politics into one engaging narrative.” — Gabriel Grand, PolicyMic.com
“This mixing of personal story and hard research is interesting and appealing, in part because Hart isn’t preachy and partly due to his unique history as someone who actually lived that which he’s trying to help others avoid.” — New Pittsburgh Courier
“A seminal contribution to the conversation about the intersection of the legal system and drug addiction from a bodacious brother with both street credibility and academic credentials.” — LA Sentinel