Healthization
turning life into health
$165.34
- Hardcover
277 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2025
Summary
The Wellness Web: Health and Self in 21st Century New Zealand
What does it mean to be healthy in the 21st century? Is it merely the absence of physical illness, a stable mental state, or the mastery of emotional control? In Aotearoa/New Zealand, it’s a complex tapestry woven from all these threads and more.
For many young people in New Zealand, health extends beyond the individual. It encompasses strong, trusted friendships, the validation of one’s emotions alongside the rec…
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: | 277 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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“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”
About The Author
Susanna Trnka
Susanna Trnka is Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology at the University of Auckland.
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