A01=Mark Walker
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Mark Walker
automatic-update
bioethics
biology of happiness
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HPCF
Category=JMQ
Category=QDHR
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
happy pharmacology
Language_English
mood enhancement
PA=Available
Philosophy
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
psychology
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9781118357385
- Weight: 526g
- Dimensions: 163 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 26 Apr 2013
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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
Mark Walker is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New Mexico State University, where he occupies the Richard L. Hedden Endowed Chair in Advanced Philosophical Studies. Dr. Walker also serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Evolution and Technology and on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
