High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know about Drugs and Society Contributor(s): Hart, Carl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0062015893 ISBN-13: 9780062015891 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General |
Dewey: B |
Series: P.S. |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.2" W x 7.8" (0.45 lbs) 340 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
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Publisher Description: Winner of the PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award High Price is the harrowing and inspiring memoir of neuroscientist Carl Hart, a man who grew up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and, determined to make a difference as an adult, tirelessly applies his scientific training to help save real lives. Young Carl didn't see the value of school, studying just enough to keep him on the basketball team. Today, he is a cutting-edge neuroscientist--Columbia University's first tenured African American professor in the sciences--whose landmark, controversial research is redefining our understanding of addiction. In this provocative and eye-opening memoir, Dr. Carl Hart 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hart, Carl: - 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; 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, he lives in New York City. |