Happy-People-Pills For All
- ISBN-10
- 1118357310
- ISBN-13
- 9781118357316
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 296
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-03-01
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Author
- Mark Walker
Description
Happy-People-Pills for All explores current theories ofhappiness while demonstrating the need to develop advancedpharmacological agents for the enhancement of our capacity forhappiness and wellbeing. Presents the first detailed exploration of the enhancement ofhappiness A controversial yet rigorous argument that demonstrates themoral imperative for the development and mass distribution of‘happy-pills’, to promote the wellbeing of theindividual and society Brings together the philosophy, psychology and biology ofhappiness Maps the development of the next generation of positive moodpharmacology Offers a corrective to contemporary accounts of happiness
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