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Author Courtwright, David T., 1952- author.

Title The age of addiction : how bad habits became big business / David T. Courtwright.

Publisher Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.

ISBN 9780674737372 (hardcover)
ISBN/ISSN/Media No. 40029076226



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Description 325 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Newfound pleasures -- Mass pleasures -- Liberating-enslaving pleasures -- Anti-vice activism -- Pro-vice activism -- Food addictions -- Digital addictions -- Against excess.
Summary 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
Subject(S) Compulsive behavior.
Capitalism -- Psychological aspects.
Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Hedonism.
Advertising -- Psychological aspects.
Capitalism.
Behavior, -- Obsessive.
Psychology, Pathological.
ISBN 9780674737372 (hardcover)
ISBN/ISSN/Media No. 40029076226