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Parution - Against health : How health became the new moralityJonathan M. Metzl and Anna Kirkland (eds), Against health : How health became the new morality, New York, NYU Press, 2010.Against Health argues that health is a concept, a norm, and a set of bodilypractices whose ideological work is often rendered invisible by theassumption that it is a monolithic, universal good, and that disparities inthe incidence and prevalence of disease are closely linked to disparities inincome and social support.  The book's stand against health is not a standagainst the authenticity of people's attempts to ward off suffering. AgainstHealth instead claims that individual strivings for health are, in someinstances, rendered more difficult by the ways in which health is culturallyconfigured and socially sustained. The authors unpack the divergent culturalmeanings of health and explore the ideologies involved in its construction,presenting strategies for moving forward and developing deeper, moreproductive, and indeed healthier interactions about our bodies.Introduction: Why Against Health?, Jonathan M. Metzl, University of Michiganhttp://www.nyupress.org/webchapters/metzl_intro.pdfWHAT IS HEALTH, ANYWAY?What is Health and How Do You Get It?  Richard Klein, Cornell UniversityRisky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, And The Ambiguity Of Health.  LaurenBerlant, University of ChicagoAgainst Global Health? Arbitrating Science, Non-Science, and Nonsensethrough Health.  Vincanne Adams, University of California, San FranciscoSEEING HEALTH THROUGH MORALITYThe Social Immorality of Health in the Gene Age: Race, Disability, andInequality.   Dorothy Roberts, Northwestern UniversityFat Panic and the Invisible Morality.  Kathleen LeBesco, MarymountManhattan CollegeAgainst Breastfeeding (Sometimes).  Joan Wolf, Texas A&#38;M UniversityMAKING HEALTH AND DISEASEPharmaceutical Propaganda.  Carl Elliott, University of MinnesotaThe Strangely Passive-Aggressive History of Passive-Aggressive Disorder.Christopher Lane, Northwestern UniversityObsession: Against Mental Health.  Lennard Davis, University of Illinoisat ChicagoAtomic Health, or How Nuclear Terror Shaped American Notions of Death.Joseph Masco, University of ChicagoPLEASURE AND PAIN AFTER HEALTHHow Much Sex is Healthy?: The Pleasures of Asexuality.  Eunjung Kim,University of Wisconsin-Madison.Be Prepared.  S. Lochlan Jain, Stanford UniversityIn the Name of Pain.  Tobin Siebers, University of MichiganConclusion: What Next?, Anna Kirkland, University of MichiganJonathan M. Metzl (jmetzl@umich.edu) is Associate Professor of WomensStudies Departmentand Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, where healso directs the Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine. He is the authorof Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs andProtest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease.Anna Kirkland (akirklan@umich.edu) is Associate Professor of WomensStudies and PoliticalScience at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Fat Rights:Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood.