Amantes Sunt Amentes: Pathologizing Love and the Meaning of Suffering
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Drawing together observations of the side effects of many common medications with advances in the field of neurobiology, Earp and colleagues (2013) boldly claim not only that certain types of lust ...
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Brain chemicals such as oxytocin, dopamine, testosterone, and many others seem to regulate interpersonal drives and emotions, including the formation of romantic pair-bonds.
“Brain chemicals such as oxytocin, dopamine, testosterone, and many others seem to regulate our interpersonal drives and emotions, including the formation of romantic pair-bonds.”
From The Medicalization of Love (2015) · cites this paper as [22]
Underlying human romantic attachment is a collection of interlocking brain systems hypothesized to have evolved to suit the reproductive needs of our ancestors.
“Underlying human romantic attachment is a collection of interlocking brain systems that are hypothesized to have evolved to suit the reproductive needs of our ancestors.”
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These underlying brain phenomena do much to shape, as well as respond to, higher-level romantic experiences across a wide range of theoretical conceptions.
“Although love is not simply reducible to these brain chemicals or pathways—and although there are many different theories of love, including how it should be defined—what is clear by now is that these underlying phenomena do much to shape (as well as to respond to) our higher-level romantic experiences, across a wide range of theoretical conceptions.”
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- Authors
- Aurenque, D., & McDougall, C. W.
- Affiliations
- University of Tübingen (DE)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- ORCID
- Aurenque, Diana
- Venue
- The American Journal of Bioethics
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-11
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 34-36
- ISSN
- 1526-5161 (ISSN-L)
- 1536-0075
- OpenAlex
- W1982073936
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 0.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The American Journal of Bioethics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Keywords
- meaning of suffering, lust, sexual desire, neurobiology of love, adverse drug reactions
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Biotechnology, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Libido, Love, Male, Object Attachment, Psychotropic Drugs, Sexual Behavior, Stress, Psychological
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