The age of addiction
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019Description: 325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780674737372
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | TBS Barcelona Libre acceso | RC533 COU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | B02258 |
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