  | Book Details Title: Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships |
Book DescriptionReview “[Earp and Savulescu] suggest that familiarity with something’s inner workings―how all the ingredients affect one another, how adjusting their ratios might help or hurt the end product―not only won’t spoil the magic, but might enhance it. And in the case of a relationship that has produced a family, that knowledge might just save it.” (Ashley Fetters The Atlantic)”Love Drugs reports current science on the effect of drugs on love and sex, adds anecdotes and case studies, and combines that with ethics and wisdom on what is important. The result is a fascinating account of a future that is starting to unfold right now.” (Peter Singer author of Ethics in the Real World)”This book offers a fascinating, game-changing scientific argument for the use of unconventional medicines by those struggling with matters of the heart. We all suffer; some even kill or die for love. If ‘love drugs’ can alleviate the pain of rejection, curb domestic abuse, and even enhance feelings of attachment in struggling partnerships, many of the important ideas here could enrich―even save―lives around the world.” (Helen Fisher author of Anatomy of Love)”[There] is an energy and passion in the writing here that sets it aside from 99% of the philosophy that I have read in the past year. I applaud Earp and Savulescu for their ambition, and hope that the book generates the kinds of debates that its highly controversial subject matter clearly deserves.” (Elizabeth Robson The Philosopher)”Earp is not offering a cure-all―there is currently no panacea for poisoned love―but is calling for the discussion….[We] need an answer to why we can’t fix a broken heart when 50-year-old science and a steady trickle of modern anecdotes say we can.” (Rich Woodsworth Engineering and Technology)”The psychopharmacology of love has been with us since the ancient Greeks celebrated the wine-soaked festivals of Dionysus. But not until this intoxicating, astonishing, dangerous book have we had the deep chemistry of our eroticism revealed. If you want to learn to be a better lover―and who doesn’t?!―Earp and Savulescu show you how the drugs we have developed are expanding our capacities for connecting with each other.” (Clancy Martin author of Love and Lies) Read more About the Author Brian D. Earp is Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and the Hastings Center and a Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. Julian Savulescu holds the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics and is Director of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. Read more Customers Review:This book completely changed my view of MDMA and other similar drugs as an approach to love, relationships, and breakups. While this might not be within my field of study, it sheds much needed light on alternative approaches using biochemical therapies and illustrates that not all uses of these drugs are bad or negligent. This is a must read for anyone within the field of psychiatry and therapy. | |
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