The age of addiction
The age of addiction
- The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019
- 325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
how bad habits became big business
Newfound pleasures Mass pleasures-- Liberating enslaving pleasures-- Anti-vice activism-- Pro-vice activism-- Food addictions-- Digital addictions-- Against excess.--
We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. What can we do to resist temptations that insidiously and deliberately rewire our brains? Nothing, David Courtwright says, unless we understand the global enterprises whose 'limbic capitalism' creates and caters to our bad habits.--Provided by publisher
9780674737372
RC INTERNAL MEDICINE
Compulsive behavior
Capitalism--Psychological aspects
Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects
Hedonism
Advertising--Psychological aspects
Psychology
Pathological
how bad habits became big business
Newfound pleasures Mass pleasures-- Liberating enslaving pleasures-- Anti-vice activism-- Pro-vice activism-- Food addictions-- Digital addictions-- Against excess.--
We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. What can we do to resist temptations that insidiously and deliberately rewire our brains? Nothing, David Courtwright says, unless we understand the global enterprises whose 'limbic capitalism' creates and caters to our bad habits.--Provided by publisher
9780674737372
RC INTERNAL MEDICINE
Compulsive behavior
Capitalism--Psychological aspects
Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects
Hedonism
Advertising--Psychological aspects
Psychology
Pathological
