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Against Health Biopolitics Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the 21st Century General Editors: Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore Missing Bodies: The Politics of Invisibility Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality Jonathan M. Metzl and Anna Kirkland, Editors Against Health How Health Became the New Morality Jonathan M. Metzl and Anna Kirkland editors a NEW Y ORK UNIVERS ITY P RESS New York and London NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London www.nyupress.org © 2010 by New York University All rights reserved References to Internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor New York University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Against health : how health became the new morality / edited by Jonathan M. Metzl and Anna Kirkland. p. cm. — (Biopolitics, medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–8147–9592–7 (cl : alk. paper) ISBN 978–0–8147–9593–4 (pb : alk. paper) ISBN 978–0–8147–6110–6 (e-book : alk. paper) 1. Health—Moral and ethical aspects. 2. Medical ethics. 3. Health services accessibility. 4. Social medicine. I. Metzl, Jonathan, 1964– II. Kirkland, Anna Rutherford. RA418.A53 2010 362.1—dc22 2010018812 New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. We strive to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the greatest extent possible in publishing our books. Manufactured in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 p 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Carol Boyd, with deep gratitude This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction: Why “Against Health”? 1 Jonathan M. Metzl Part I: What Is Health, Anyway? 2 What Is Health and How Do You Get It? 15 Richard Klein 3 Risky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, and the Ambiguity of “Health” 26 Lauren Berlant 4 Against Global Health? Arbitrating Science, 40 Non-Science, and Nonsense through Health Vincanne Adams Part II: Seeing Health through Morality 5 The Social Immorality of Health in the Gene Age: 61 Race, Disability, and Inequality Dorothy Roberts 6 Fat Panic and the New Morality 72 Kathleen LeBesco 7 Against Breastfeeding (Sometimes) 83 Joan B. Wolf Part III: Making Health and Disease 8 Pharmaceutical Propaganda 93 Carl Elliott | vii 9 The Strangely Passive-Aggressive History of 105 Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder Christopher Lane 10 Obsession: Against Mental Health 121 Lennard J. Davis 11 Atomic Health, or How The Bomb Altered 133 American Notions of Death Joseph Masco Part IV: Pleasure and Pain after Health 12 How Much Sex Is Healthy? The Pleasures of Asexuality 157 Eunjung Kim 13 Be Prepared 170 S. Lochlann Jain 14 In the Name of Pain 183 Tobin Siebers 15 Conclusion: What Next? 195 Anna Kirkland About the Contributors 205 Index 209 viii | Contents Acknowledgments Against Health was a concept, and a conference, before it was a book. The editors express tremendous gratitude to the many people whose dedication, skill, generosity, and foresight enabled this transformation. From the beginning, Carol Boyd and David Halperin envisioned and supported the Against Health conference, which took place in October 2006 at the Uni- versity of Michigan. Colleagues including Wendy Bostwick, Anne Esacove, Sasha Feirstein, Sean McCabe, Michele Morales, Justin Schmant, Lisa Kane Low, and Michelle McClellan served on the conference planning commit- tee. In addition to the authors in this volume, Paul Campos, John Carson, Kenneth Warner, Susan Kippax, Paula Allen-Mears, Joycelyn Elders, Rod- dey Reid, Rebecca Herzig, Libby Bogdan-Lovis, Ray De Vries, Petra Kuppers, Magdalena Harris, Bernice Hausman, Michele Morales, Moya Bailey, Nich- olas King, Brad Lewis, Lisa Kane Low, Susan Love, Elizabeth Roberts, and Kane Race contributed to the conference conversation in brilliant and chal- lenging ways. Sacha Feirstein and Terri Torkko coordinated the whole event through the offices of the Univrsity of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender. At NYU Press, editor Ilene Kalish, and editorial assis- tant Aiden Amos, served as amazing advocates. And, perhaps most impor- tant, our remarkable and extraordinary graduate student assistant, Burke Hilsabeck, pulled the chapters into final coherence and, ultimately, pulled us through. Thank you all. | ix
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