Affluenza

Editor/Author de Graaf , John, Wann , David and Naylor, Thomas H.
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Single-User Purchase Price: $33.95
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ISBN: 978-1-60-994927-3
Category: Business, Finance & Economics - Economics
Image Count: 34
Book Status: Available
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Based on two highly acclaimed PBS documentaries watched by 10 million viewers, Affluenza uses the whimsical metaphor of a disease to tackle a very serious subject: the damage done--to our health, our families, our communities, and our environment--by the obsessive quest for material gain.

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Table of Contents

  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: SYMPTOMS
  • 1. Feverish expectations
  • 2. All stuffed up
  • 3. Stressed to kill
  • 4. Family fractures
  • 5. Community chills
  • 6. Heart failure
  • 7. Social scars
  • 8. Resource exhaustion
  • 9. Industrial diarrhea
  • 10. A cancerous culture
  • PART TWO: CAUSES
  • 11. Early infections
  • 12. An ounce of prevention
  • 13. The road not taken
  • 14. An emerging epidemic
  • 15. The Age of Affluenza
  • 16. Spin doctors
  • PART THREE: CURES
  • 17. Diagnostic test
  • 18. Bed rest
  • 19. Affluholics anonymous
  • 20. Fresh air
  • 21. Back to work
  • 22. Building immunity
  • 23. Policy prescriptions
  • 24. Vital signs
  • 25. The glow of health
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • About the authors