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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Navigates the divergent cultural meanings of health, and its entanglement with morality in current political discourseYou see someone smoking a cigarette and say,“Smoking is bad for your health,” when what you mean is, “You are a bad person becaus...

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