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]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Biopolitics ; 18
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