Against health : how health became the new morality / Jonathan M. Metzl and Anna Kirkland, editors.

Other author Metzl, Jonathan, 1964-
Other author Kirkland, Anna Rutherford.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : New York University Press, ©2010.
Descriptionix, 217 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesBiopolitics, medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century
Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.) ^A1030868
Contents Why "Against health"? / Jonathan M. Metzl -- What is health and how do you get it? / Richard Klein -- Risky bigness : on obesity, eating, and the ambiguity of "health" / Lauren Berlant -- Against global health? Arbitrating science, non-science and nonsense through health / Vincanne Adams -- Social immorality of health in the gene age : race, disability, and inequality / Dorothy Roberts -- Fat panic and the new morality / Kathleen LeBesco -- Against breastfeeding (sometimes) / Joan B. Wolf -- Pharmaceutical propaganda / Carl Elliott -- Strangely passive-aggressive history of passive-aggressive personality disorder / Christopher Lane -- Obsession : against mental health / Leonard J. Davis -- Atomic health, or how the bomb altered American notions of death / Joseph Masco -- How much sex is healthy? The pleasures of asexuality / Eunjung Kim -- Be prepared / S. Lochlann Jain -- In the name of pain / Tobin Siebers -- What next? / Anna Kirkland.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010018812
ISBN9780814795927 (alk. paper)
ISBN0814795927 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780814795934 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0814795935 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks RA418 .A53 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold