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Artificial Happiness : the Dark Side of the New Happy Class by Dworkin M.D., Ronald W. is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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Examines The Rise Of Psychotropic Drugs; Alternative Medicine; The Belief In Endorphins As A Way To Maximize Health Through Exercise; And Medicine's Investigations Of Spirituality — All During The Past Thirty Years — Fitting Them Together Into A Story That Puts Americans At The Center Of A Novel Social Experiment: Helping People Feel Happy Independent Of The Facts In Their Lives. Though Well-intentioned, Dworkin Identifies A Dark Side, Asserting That Prozac, For Instance, Is Freezing People In Unsatisfactory Relationships And Jobs, Nullifying Their Impulse To Change, Because Of The Happiness Induced By The Medicine. – From Publisher Description. Too Much Happiness -- Unhappiness Becomes An Engineering Problem -- From Ideology To Interests To Scandal -- The Revolt Of The Engineers -- Engineering For The Masses -- Happiness Hits The Assembly Line -- More Revolution -- The Plight Of Sir John Eccles -- The Last Battle -- The Happy American. Ronald W. Dworkin. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 295-316) And Index.

Who reads Artificial Happiness : the Dark Side of the New Happy Class?

Author

Dworkin M.D., Ronald W.

Publisher

Carroll & Graf Publishers

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786717149

Category

science

Subjects

Medical, Fiction, Psychology

Rating

3.32 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14