The age of addiction : how bad habits became big business /

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&q...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Courtwright, David T., 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
Temas:
Compulsive behavior.
Capitalism > Psychological aspects.
Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects.
Hedonism.
Advertising > Psychological aspects.
Psychology, Pathological.
Compulsive Behavior
Obsessive Behavior
Capitalism
Psychopathology
Comportement compulsif.
Publicité > Aspect psychologique.
Psychopathologie.
addiction.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
HISTORY / Modern / General
Advertising > Psychological aspects
Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects
Capitalism > Psychological aspects
Compulsive behavior
Hedonism
Psychology, Pathological
Sucht
Abhängigkeit
Zwangshandlung
Hedonismus
Werbung
Märkt.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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
Descripción Física:1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780674239241
0674239245
9780674239258
0674239253

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