<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://thisishell.com/guests/barbara-ehrenreich">https://thisishell.com/guests/barbara-ehrenreich</a><br><div><br></div><div>A good interview can be found here.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 9:17 AM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Begin forwarded message:<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><br class="m_1424443014884757313Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">Louis Proyect via Marxism <<a href="mailto:marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu" target="_blank">marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>[Marxism] Barbara Ehrenreich's Radical Critique of Wellness Culture | The New Republic</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">May 28, 2018 at 7:04:22 AM CDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">"C. G. Estabrook" <<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu" target="_blank">galliher@illinois.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">Louis Proyect <<a href="mailto:lnp3@panix.com" target="_blank">lnp3@panix.com</a>>, "Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition" <<a href="mailto:marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu" target="_blank">marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu</a>><br></span></div><div><div><br><br>Ehrenreich contemplates with some satisfaction not just the approach of her own death but also the passing of her generation. As the boomers have aged, denial of death, she argues, has moved to the center of American culture, and a vast industrial ecosystem has bloomed to capitalize on it. Across twelve chapters, Ehrenreich surveys the health care system, the culture of old age, the world of “mindfulness,” and the interior workings of the body itself, and finds a fixation on controlling the body, encouraged by cynical and self-interested professionals in the name of “wellness.” Without opposing reasonable, routine maintenance, Ehrenreich observes that the care of the self has become a coercive and exploitative obligation: a string of endless medical tests, drugs, wellness practices, and exercise fads that threaten to become the point of life rather than its sustenance. Someone, obviously, is profiting from all this.<br><br><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/148296/barbara-ehrenreich-radical-crtique-wellness-culture" target="_blank">https://newrepublic.com/<wbr>article/148296/barbara-<wbr>ehrenreich-radical-crtique-<wbr>wellness-culture</a><br>______________________________<wbr>___________________________<br>Full posting guidelines at: <a href="http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm" target="_blank">http://www.marxmail.org/sub.<wbr>htm</a><br>Set your options at: <a href="http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/galliher%40illinois.edu" target="_blank">http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/<wbr>options/marxism/galliher%<wbr>40illinois.edu</a></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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