Against Health : How Health Became the New Morality.

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.
Subjects:
Health > Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics.
Health services accessibility.
Social medicine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Health > Moral and ethical aspects
Health services accessibility
Medical ethics
Social medicine
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Table of 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 Disorder10 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

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