Name: Against Health
ISBN: 9780814795934

Anna Kirkland

Anna Rutherford Kirkland

Jonathan Metzl

Looks at the cultural meanings of health, exploring it's ideologies, arguing that obtaining health is difficult because of cultural conventions, and offering ways to develop healthier options for one's body.

How Health Became the New Morality

Against Health

Caitlin Berger

Great collection of essays on a topic I’m becoming more and more passionate about. The only thing that was very problematic to me was the concept of obesity as being legitimate to some of the authors. They were challenging the narrative that all fat people are unhealthy, but they didn’t go far enough and challenge the whole concept of obesity and how it’s measured and used in society.

Against Health How Health Became the New Morality

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