Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality by Anna Kirkland, Jonathan M. Metzl

Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality

Biopolitics #18

Anna Kirkland, Jonathan M. Metzl

226 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction health politics sociology informative slow-paced
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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," whe...

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