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

2.0

The arguments against health made in this volume are really anything but. Rather, the various authors challenge our current conceptions of 'health.' While widely accepted as a ubiquitous good, many argue that 'health' is in fact a social and political construct, often used to buttress certain agendas while diminishing others. In turn, to be truly for health, one must acknowledge and challenge the commonly held but little questioned conceptions of what is healthy.

The points made by the authors are interesting and definitely worth considering. However, to a casual reader not looking for scholastic sources to cite, the writing is a bit dense and academically dramatic. For a good introduction to the subject, a paragraph long abstract of each article would likely suffice.