healthism
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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This view of exercise might be best understood as “healthism,” a term coined decades ago by sociologist Robert Crawford.
From Slate
“The past few years have witnessed an exercise and running explosion,” Crawford wrote in a 1980 paper titled “Healthism and the Medicalization of Everyday Life,” pointing to the proliferation of health magazines, and “health themes” in newspapers.
From Slate
If you’ve listened to Maintenance Phase, the popular podcast by Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon, you’re familiar with how rotten the promise of healthism has always been; in fact, it was in Gordon’s new book debunking myths about fat people that I most recently came across the term.
From Slate
And it's not just about us; a prevailing ideology of "Healthism" urges us to frame our personal inadequacies as a slight against the society that depends on us to remain healthy.
From Salon
It’s a side effect of healthism.
From Seattle Times
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