Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
Barbara Ehrenreich examines the modern wellness movement and its promises of longer, healthier lives. Natural Causes considers the cultural pressure to optimize the body, the certainty of death, and the ways efforts to preserve life can become complicated, demanding, and unexpectedly self-defeating.
About This Book
Natural Causes explores the modern pursuit of wellness and the powerful desire to live longer.
Barbara Ehrenreich examines how cultural attitudes toward health and mortality shape everyday life.
The book considers the tension between accepting death and treating longevity as an obligation.
With a critical perspective, it invites readers to reconsider what it means to care for themselves and confront the limits of the human body.
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