Against Health

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<p><b>Navigates the divergent cultural meanings of health, and its entanglement with morality in current political discourse</b><br/>You see someone smoking a cigarette and say,¿Smoking is bad for your health,¿ when what you mean is, ¿You are a bad person because you smoke.¿ You encounter someone whose body size you deem excessive, and say, ¿Obesity is bad for your health,¿ when what you mean is, ¿You are lazy, unsightly, or weak of will.¿ You see a woman bottle-feeding an infant and say,¿Breastfeeding is better for that child¿s health,¿ when what you mean is that the woman must be a bad parent. You see the smokers, the overeaters, the bottle-feeders, and affirm your own health in the process. In these and countless other instances, the perception of your own health depends in part on your value judgments about others, and appealing to health allows for a set of moral assumptions to fly stealthily under the radar.<br/><b>Against Health</b> argues that health is a concept, a norm, and