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.

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