Happy-People-Pills For All
( Blackwell Public Philosophy Series )
Publication series ：Blackwell Public Philosophy Series
Author： Mark Walker
Publisher： John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9781118357330
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781118357477
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781118357385
Subject： R969.3 rational drug use
Language： ENG
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Description
Happy-People-Pills for All explores current theories of happiness while demonstrating the need to develop advanced pharmacological agents for the enhancement of our capacity for happiness and wellbeing.
- Presents the first detailed exploration of the enhancement of happiness
- A controversial yet rigorous argument that demonstrates the moral imperative for the development and mass distribution of ‘happy-pills’, to promote the wellbeing of the individual and society
- Brings together the philosophy, psychology and biology of happiness
- Maps the development of the next generation of positive mood pharmacology
- Offers a corrective to contemporary accounts of happiness
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