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Title Against health : how health became the new morality / Jonathan M. Metzl and Anna Kirkland, editors.
Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, c2010.
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Description ix, 217 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Biopolitics, medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Looks at the cultural meanings of health, exploring it's ideologies, arguing that obtaining health is difficult because of cultural conventions, and offering ways to develop healthier options for one's body.
Subject Health -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics.
Health services accessibility.
Social medicine.
Added Author Metzl, Jonathan, 1964-
Kirkland, Anna Rutherford.
ISBN 0814795935 : $23.00
9780814795934