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

Notes 

Bibliography

Index 

About the authors