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The Age of Addiction ; How Bad Habits Became Big Business

By David T. Courtwright

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780674737372, 0674737377
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4423352 bytes)
Pages
336\337
Time added
2020-05-16 21:18:05

Description

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. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. NEWFOUND PLEASURES 2. MASS PLEASURES 3. LIBERATING-ENSLAVING PLEASURES 4. ANTI-VICE ACTIVISM 5. PRO-VICE ACTIVISM 6. FOOD ADDICTIONS 7. DIGITAL ADDICTIONS 8. AGAINST EXCESS ABBREVIATIONS NOTES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CREDITS INDEX

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