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Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality

University of Michigan

Abstract

Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Why Jonathan M. MetzlPart I: What Is Health, Anyway? 2 What Is and How Do You Get It? Richard Klein 3 Risky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, and the Ambiguity of Health Lauren Berlant 4 Against Global Health? Arbitrating Science, Non-Science, and Nonsense through Vincanne Adams Part II: Seeing through Morality 5 The Social Immorality of in the Gene Age: Race, Disability, and Inequality Dorothy Roberts 6 Fat Panic and the New Morality Kathleen LeBesco 7 Against Breastfeeding (Sometimes) Joan B. WolfPart III: Making and Disease 8 Pharmaceutical Propaganda Carl Elliott 9 The Strangely Passive-Aggressive History of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder Christopher Lane 10 Obsession:…

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Keywords
  • Morality
  • Immorality
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Pain and pleasure
  • Disgust
  • Psychology
  • Pleasure
  • Criminology
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Gender equality
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