Against Health : How Health Became the New Morality.

You 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, &q...

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Main Author: Metzl, Jonathan M.
Other Authors: Kirkland, Anna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2010.
Series:Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the Twenty-first Century.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central