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The homeostatics of happiness.(Book Review)
The Happiness Paradox, by Ziyad Marar; Reaktion Books, 2003, $36.95. Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream, by Carl Elliott; Norton, 2003, $24.95.
THE WESTERN WORLD has never been more prosperous than it is now, even if much of its wealth seems the outcome of smoke and mirrors. What to former eras were utopian fantasies (greater productivity, reduced infant mortality, higher life expectancy) are now so taken for granted we hardly notice them. We only notice that reality is a more complicated and obscure matter than hitherto imagined when things refuse to bend to our imperious wills: this state of affairs is called a scandal.
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