From pathological to professional: gambling stories
Theories on gambling are as disparate as they are diverse. While on the one hand gambling is condemned as being pathological, a curable addiction, on the other it is regarded as merely leisure. While playing on the exterior features of gambling, these two perspectives narrow the vistas of gambling r...
Main Author: | Andrada-Mihaela Istrate |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Bucharest
2011-11-01
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Series: | Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology |
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Online Access: | http://compaso.eu/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Compaso2011-22-Istrate.pdf |
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