[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [Marxism] Barbara Ehrenreich's Radical Critique of Wellness Culture | The New Republic

[Carl G. Estabrook]

But Barbara Ehrenreich is well worth reading (and debated) even if the New Republic is usually not (I agree). 

Even the irascible Louis Proyect sees that. —CGE


> On May 28, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> Jeeze Carl. I dropped my subscription to and stopped reading TNR when Marty Peretz’s wife bought it out  for him to play with when he was going nowhere at Harvard and he then turned it into the American  House Organ for Likhud. It has had absolutely ZERO credibility since then. Fab.
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> From: Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss
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> From: Louis Proyect via Marxism <marxism at lists.csbs.utah.edu>
> Subject: [Marxism] Barbara Ehrenreich's Radical Critique of Wellness Culture | The New Republic
> Date: May 28, 2018 at 7:04:22 AM CDT
> To: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
> Reply-To: Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com>, "Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition" <marxism at lists.csbs.utah.edu>
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> 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.
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> https://newrepublic.com/article/148296/barbara-ehrenreich-radical-crtique-wellness-culture
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