How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time

Larocca, Amy

ISBN 10: 0525655530 / ISBN 13: 9780525655534

Verlag: Knopf, 2025

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A groundbreaking cultural, political, and personal exploration of the multi-billion dollar wellness industry and the ways it's shaping our thinking about health and self-care.

Peleton. Pilates. Biohacking. Colonics. Ashweganda. Today, the wellness industry is a $3.7 trillion dollar behemoth that touches us all. In this urgently needed book, journalist Amy Larocca peels back the layers behind the movement and reckons with its promises and profits. How did we get here and how did the idea of wellness become integrated with women's lives? 

How to Be Well takes readers into the communities that swear by their activated charcoal toothpaste and green juice enemas, explaining what each of these practices really are—and what the science says. Larocca holds a magnifying glass to alternative medicine and nouveau lifestyle prescriptions, delivering an incisive assessment of how the wellness industry embodies our (gendered, class-based, racialized) perceptions of care and self-improvement, and how it preys upon our unshakeable fear of the unknown. She traces the history of how the beauty and fashion industries has peddled snake oil to women for decades—and why we keep coming back for more.

A nuanced portrait of the weird world of wellness, How to Be Well lays bare the ways in which the simple notion of caring for oneself has become a seriously big business.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: AMY LAROCCA has been working as a journalist for the past twenty years. She is currently the Fashion Editor-at-Large at New York (prior to which she was on staff as a contributing editor for ten years, then fashion director for seven), and edits the magazine's biannual Fashion Issue. Her journalism and essays have also appeared in Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Town & Country, Allure, Glamour, Esquire (UK), The Times (London), and The London Review of Books, among other publications. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the theatre director Will Frears, and their two children.

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Titel: How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care ...
Verlag: Knopf
Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Very Good