Courtwright, David T.,  1952- <br/><br/>
The age of addiction :  how bad habits became big business / 
David T. Courtwright. 
 - Cambridge, Massachusetts :  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,  (c)2019. 
 - 1 online resource (325 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Newfound pleasures --  Mass pleasures --  Liberating enslaving pleasures --  Anti-vice activism --  Pro-vice activism --  Food addictions --  Digital addictions --  Against excess. 
<br/><br/> 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 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674239241 9780674239258 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Compulsive behavior.<br/>Capitalism--Psychological aspects.<br/>Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>Hedonism.<br/>Advertising--Psychological aspects.<br/>Psychology, Pathological.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC533  / .A346 2019