The Age of Addiction : : How Bad Habits Became Big Business / / David T. Courtwright.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Courtwright, David T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; 1. NEWFOUND PLEASURES --; 2. MASS PLEASURES --; 3. LIBERATING-ENSLAVING PLEASURES --; 4. ANTI-VICE ACTIVISM --; 5. PRO-VICE ACTIVISM --; 6. FOOD ADDICTIONS --; 7. DIGITAL ADDICTIONS --; 8. AGAINST EXCESS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; NOTES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; CREDITS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674239241; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674239241
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David T. Courtwright.

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.