LEADER 04314nam 2200949Ia 450 001 9910458733303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-5963-7 010 $a0-8147-6110-0 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814759639 035 $a(CKB)2560000000053344 035 $a(EBL)865704 035 $a(OCoLC)779828204 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000411435 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11306206 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411435 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10354683 035 $a(PQKB)11721403 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865704 035 $a(OCoLC)682621108 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4911 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865704 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10425197 035 $a(DE-B1597)546843 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814759639 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000053344 100 $a20100518d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAgainst health$b[electronic resource] $ehow health became the new morality /$fedited by Jonathan M. Metzl and Anna Kirkland 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (228 pages) 225 1 $aBiopolitics, medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-9593-5 311 $a0-8147-9592-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Why "Against Health"?; PART I: What Is Health, Anyway?; 2 What Is Health and How Do You Get It?; 3 Risky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, and the Ambiguity of "Health"; 4 Against Global Health? Arbitrating Science, Non-Science, and Nonsense through Health; PART II: Seeing Health through Morality; 5 The Social Immorality of Health in the Gene Age: Race, Disability, and Inequality; 6 Fat Panic and the New Morality; 7 Against Breastfeeding (Sometimes); PART III: Making Health and Disease; 8 Pharmaceutical Propaganda 327 $a9 The Strangely Passive-Aggressive History of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder10 Obsession: Against Mental Health; 11 Atomic Health, or How The Bomb Altered American Notions of Death; PART IV: Pleasure and Pain after Health; 12 How Much Sex Is Healthy? The Pleasures of Asexuality; 13 Be Prepared; 14 In the Name of Pain; 15 Conclusion: What Next?; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z 330 $aYou see someone smoking a cigarette and say,"Smoking is bad for your health," when what you mean is, "You are a bad person because you smoke." You encounter someone whose body size you deem excessive, and say, "Obesity is bad for your health," when what you mean is, "You are lazy, unsightly, or weak of will." You see a woman bottle-feeding an infant and say,"Breastfeeding is better for that child's health," when what you mean is that the woman must be a bad parent. You see the smokers, the overeaters, the bottle-feeders, and affirm your own health in the process. In these and countless other i 410 0$aBiopolitics (New York, N.Y.) 606 $aHealth$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aMedical ethics 606 $aHealth services accessibility 606 $aSocial medicine 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aAgainst. 610 $aargues. 610 $aassumption. 610 $abodily. 610 $aconcept. 610 $agood. 610 $ahealth. 610 $aideological. 610 $ainvisible. 610 $amonolithic. 610 $anorm. 610 $aoften. 610 $apractices. 610 $arendered. 610 $athat. 610 $auniversal. 610 $awhose. 610 $awork. 615 0$aHealth$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aMedical ethics. 615 0$aHealth services accessibility. 615 0$aSocial medicine. 676 $a362.1 701 $aMetzl$b Jonathan$f1964-$01022942 701 $aKirkland$b Anna Rutherford$01022943 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458733303321 996 $aAgainst health$92430108 997 $aUNINA 999 $p$110.14$u10/15/2017$5Pharm