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Description
325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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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.