What do the invention of anaesthetics in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Nazis’ use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac have in common? The answer is that they’re all products of the same logic that defines our contemporary era: ‘the age of anaesthesia’. Laurent de Sutter shows how large aspects of our lives are now characterised by the management of our emotions through drugs, ranging from the everyday use of sleeping pills to hard narcotics. Chemistry has become ...
Table of Content
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Prologue: Goin’ Down
Chapter 1 – Welcome to Prozacland
Chapter 2 – Narcocapitalism Unlimited
Chapter 3 – Day Without End
Chapter 4 – Swallowing the Pill...
About the author
Laurent de Sutter is Professor of Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 140 ● ISBN 9781509506859 ● File size 1.5 MB ● Translator Barnaby Norman ● Publisher John Wiley & Sons ● Published 2018 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6218529 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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