The Age of Addiction
How Bad Habits Became Big Business
Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Psychology, Addictions, History, World History, Modern
| Author: | David T. Courtwright | ISBN: | 9780674239258 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press | Publication: | May 6, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | David T. Courtwright |
| ISBN: | 9780674239258 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication: | May 6, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
