Against Health : How Health Became the New Morality.

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, &q...

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Main Author: Metzl, Jonathan M.
Other Authors: Kirkland, Anna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2010.
Series:Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the Twenty-first Century.
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Summary: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 of will." You see a woman bottle-feeding an infant and say, "Breastfeeding is better for that child's health," when what you mean is that the woman must be a bad parent. You see the smokers, the overeaters, the bottle-feeders, and affirm your own health in the process. In these and countless other i.
Physical Description:1 online resource (228 pages)
ISBN:9780814759639
0814759637
9780814795934
0814795935
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.