Happy-People-Pills For All

Walker, Mark

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

Details

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2013-05-13

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781118357385

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Dimensions: 236.2cm x162.6cm

Pages: 296.0