Title:
The age of addiction : how bad habits became big business / David T. Courtwright.
Author:
Courtwright, David T., 1952- author.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
Call Number:
RC533 .C678 2019
Abstract:
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.
ISBN:
9780674737372
Physical Description:
325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents:
Newfound pleasures -- Mass pleasures -- Liberating enslaving pleasures -- Anti-vice activism -- Pro-vice activism -- Food addictions -- Digital addictions -- Against excess.
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