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

[David Green]

https://thisishell.com/guests/barbara-ehrenreich

A good interview can be found here.

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 9:17 AM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

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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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