The Age of Addiction
Subtitle: How Bad Habits Became Big Business
Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press; The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: May 06, 2019
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA; London, England
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780674737372
Copyright date: 2019
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.--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Source title: The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Newfound pleasures; title: Mass pleasures; title: Liberating-enslaving pleasures; title: Anti-vice activism; title: Pro-vice activism; title: Food addictions; title: Digital addictions; title: Against excess