15 Conclusion: What Next?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Introduction: Why “Against Health”? 1
5. Part I : What Is Health, Anyway?
6. 2. What Is Health and How Do You Get It? 15
7. 3 Risky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, and the Ambiguity of “Health” 26
8. 4 Against Global Health? Arbitrating Science, Non-Science, and Nonsense through Health 40
9. Part II : Seeing Health through Morality
10. 5 The Social Immorality of Health in the Gene Age: Race, Disability, and Inequality 61
11. 6. Fat Panic and the New Morality 72
12. 7 Against Breastfeeding (Sometimes) 83
13. Part III : Making Health and Disease
14. 8 Pharmaceutical Propaganda 93
15. 9 The Strangely Passive-Aggressive History of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder 105
16. 10 Obsession: Against Mental Health 121
17. 11 Atomic Health, or How The Bomb Altered American Notions of Death 133
18. Part IV : Pleasure and Pain after Health
19. 12 How Much Sex Is Healthy? The Pleasures of Asexuality 157
20. 13 Be Prepared 170
21. 14 In the Name of Pain 183
22. 15 Conclusion: What Next? 195
23. About the Contributors 205
24. Index 209