Who is wellness for? : an examination of wellness culture and who it leaves behind
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Who is wellness for? : an examination of wellness culture and who it leaves behind
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
x, 307 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"Growing up in Australia, Fariha Róisín, a Bangladeshi Muslim, struggled to fit in. In attempts to assimilate, she distanced herself from her South Asian heritage and identity. Years later, living in the United States, she realized that the customs, practices, and even food of her native culture that had once made her different--everything from ashwagandha to prayer--were now being homogenized and marketed for good health, often at a premium by white people to white people. In this thought-provoking book, part memoir, part journalistic investigation, the acclaimed writer and poet explores the way in which the progressive health industry has appropriated and commodified global healing traditions. She reveals how wellness culture has become a luxury good built on the wisdom of Black, brown, and Indigenous people--while ignoring and excluding them. Who Is Wellness For? is divided into four sections, beginning with The Mind, in which Fariha examines the art of meditation and the importance of intuition. In part two, The Body, she investigates the physiology of trauma, detailing her own journey with fatphobia and gender dysmorphia, as well as her own chronic illness. In part three, Self-Care, she argues against the self-care industrial complex but cautions us against abandoning care completely and offers practical advice. She ends with Justice, arguing that if we truly want to be well, we must be invested in everyone’s well being and shift toward nurturance culture...Who Is Wellness For? forces us to confront the imbalance in health and healing and carves a path towards self-care that is inclusionary for all."--Book jacket.
Contents:
Part I: Journey to the mind. On the mind -- On meditation -- On intuition and unseen things -- On the frustrating pitfalls of healing -- Part II: Journey to the body. Introduction to the body -- On body dysmorphia -- On white people co-opting yoga -- On IBS -- Part III: On self-care. Introduction to radical self-care -- On self-care and self-harm -- On eroticism -- On divination -- Part IV: Introduction to justice. Who is wellness for? -- On degrowth -- On healing our wounds with the feminine -- Conclusion: On sacred reciprocity.
Publication Info:
New York, NY : Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
Subject:
Health |
Self-care, Health |
Mind and body |
Well-being -- Social aspects. |
Traditional medicine |
Indigenous peoples -- Medicine. |
Cultural appropriation |
Discrimination in medical care |
Social justice |
Róisín, Fariha -- Health. |
Body care |
Human body -- Care and hygiene |
Hygiene |
Personal body care |
Personal cleanliness |
Personal health |
Personal hygiene |
Wellness |
Health care, Self |
Health self-care |
Medical self-care |
Self-care, Medical |
Self health care |
Self-help, Health |
Body and mind |
Body and soul (Philosophy) |
Human body -- Psychological aspects |
Mind |
Mind-body connection |
Mind-body relations |
Mind-cure |
Somatopsychics |
Welfare (Personal well-being) |
Wellbeing |
Ethnic medicine |
Ethnomedicine |
Folk medicine |
Home cures |
Home medicine |
Home remedies |
Indigenous medicine |
Medical folklore |
Medicine, Primitive |
Primitive medicine |
Surgery, Primitive |
Aboriginal peoples |
Aborigines |
Indigenous populations |
Native peoples |
Appropriation, Cultural |
Race discrimination in medical care |
SAILS ISBN:
9780063077089