Contents

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

9 The Strangely Passive-Aggressive History of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder

10 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

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