Against Health : : How Health Became the New Morality / / ed. by Anna Kirkland, Jonathan M. Metzl.
You see someone smoking a cigarette and say,“Smoking is bad for your health,” when what you mean is, “You are a bad person because you smoke.” You encounter someone whose body size you deem excessive, and say, “Obesity is bad for your health,” when what you mean is, “You are lazy, unsightly, or weak...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Why “Against Health”?
- Part I : What Is Health, Anyway?
- 2. What Is Health and How Do You Get It?
- 3 Risky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, and the Ambiguity of “Health”
- 4 Against Global Health? Arbitrating Science, Non-Science, and Nonsense through Health
- Part II : Seeing Health through Morality
- 5 The Social Immorality of Health in the Gene Age: Race, Disability, and Inequality
- 6. Fat Panic and the New Morality
- 7 Against Breastfeeding (Sometimes)
- Part III : Making Health and Disease
- 8 Pharmaceutical Propaganda
- 9 The Strangely Passive-Aggressive History of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder
- 10 Obsession: Against Mental Health
- 11 Atomic Health, or How The Bomb Altered American Notions of Death
- Part IV : Pleasure and Pain after Health
- 12 How Much Sex Is Healthy? The Pleasures of Asexuality
- 13 Be Prepared
- 14 In the Name of Pain
- 15 Conclusion: What Next?
- About the Contributors
- Index