Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780745655604
Year: 2014
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 200


Description:


Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories
in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a
victim of the wellness syndrome.


In this ground-breaking new book, Carl Cederström and
André Spicer argue that the ever-present pressure to maximize
our wellness has started to work against us, making us feel worse
and provoking us to withdraw into ourselves. The Wellness Syndrome
follows health freaks who go to extremes to find the perfect diet,
corporate athletes who start the day with a dance party, and the
self-trackers who monitor everything, including their own toilet
habits. This is a world where feeling good has become
indistinguishable from being good. Visions of social change have
been reduced to dreams of individual transformation, political
debate has been replaced by insipid moralising, and scientific
evidence has been traded for new-age delusions. A lively and
humorous diagnosis of the cult of wellness, this book is an
indispensable guide for everyone suspicious of our relentless quest
to be happier and healthier.