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

Publication Info.

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

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Canton Public Library - Adult Department	616.8522 COURTWRIGHT	Check Shelf
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Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department	616.85 COU	Check Shelf
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Description	325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
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.
Subject	Compulsive behavior.
	Capitalism -- Psychological aspects.
	Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Hedonism.
	Advertising -- Psychological aspects.
	Psychology, Pathological.
	Capitalism.
	Capitalism. (OCoLC)fst00846425
	Advertising -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00797734
	Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst00846434
	Capitalism -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00846437
	Compulsive behavior. (OCoLC)fst00871935
	Hedonism. (OCoLC)fst00954467
	Psychology, Pathological. (OCoLC)fst01081609
	Compulsive Behavior. (DNLM)D003192
	Obsessive Behavior. (DNLM)D009770
	Capitalism. (DNLM)D030861
	Psychopathology. (DNLM)D011599
ISBN	9780674737372 (hardcover alkaline paper)
	0674737377 (hardcover alkaline paper)
Standard No.	40029076226

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