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Frontmatter -- 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 -- Index

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