Healthization
Turning Life Into Health
$128.66
- Hardcover
280 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2025
Summary
What does it mean to be healthy? Is it a measure of physical illness, of a mental health condition, or of emotional control? In twenty-first-century Aotearoa/New Zealand, it is all of the above. Being healthy in this country requires an investment of extensive work, resources, and time. Because while it encompasses the above categories, for many young people in Aotearoa/New Zealand, health also extends to having strong, trusted friendships—to feeling that one’s emotions are being recognized w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781512828160 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1512828165 |
| Author: | Susanna Trnka |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Imprint: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 532g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“With this rich ethnographic analysis, Susanna Trnka provides powerful insights regarding how health has become not only a project of self-fashioning, but a collective project linking body and society.”– “Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine”
Susanna Trnka
Susanna Trnka is Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology at the University of Auckland.
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