American mania : when more is not enough

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Label

American mania : when more is not enough

Title remainder

when more is not enough

Statement of responsibility

Peter C. Whybrow

Creator

• Whybrow, Peter C

Subject

• Happiness
• National characteristics, American -- History
• Politics & government
• Politics and Government
• Self-interest -- United States
• Consumption (Economics) -- Health aspects -- United States
• Social ethics -- United States
• Social values -- United States
• United States of America, USA
• Wealth -- Social aspects -- United States
• Social & cultural anthropology

Language

eng

Summary

In this analysis of American society, renowned psychiatrist Peter Whybrow reveals why, as a nation of acquisitive migrants, the insatiable quest for more now threatens America's health and happiness.

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 301.0973
• 301.0973

Index

index present

LC call number

HN90.M6

LC item number

W55 2005

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Summary expansion

Whybrow describes an affluence in America that far outstrips need and a rampant greed spawning the addictions of consumer culture--food, money and technology. Citing the alarming statistics of obesity, depression and panic disorders, Whybrow points to forms of behaviour that are testing the limits of America's ancestral biology--in mind and body--and threaten to erode the very foundations of American community. Drawing upon case studies, Whybrow offers guidance and a vantage point from which to understand America's most pressing social and medical issues. This provocative volume, grounded in science and philosophy, calls for collective action in refocusing the pursuit of happiness and enhancing America's prosperity