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, &qu...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2010]
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Colección: | Biopolitics ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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