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Chargement... Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longerpar Barbara Ehrenreich
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Disjointed, confusing in places, and overly cynical. ( ) I’m not sure what I expected out of this book, but having finished it, I don’t think I got as much as I had hoped. Much of it is due to my own lack of science background. I am a humanities person who, while I took chemistry and physics as well as higher math in high school, didn’t go near any of it after that. I decided to watch an interview with Ehrenreich from 2014 on CSPAN thinking that hearing her (although not in reference to this book) talk about her work might help me with this book. Wrong. In fact, I felt much the same way after the interview that I do having finished this book. Again, like the girlfriend says to the boyfriend while breaking up: it’s not you; it’s me. Really fantastic, and way beyond what I expected when the droll cover image of the grim reaper running on a treadmill made me pick up the book. Probably like many readers, I already agreed that our contemporary obsession with "successful aging" is needlessly painful folly, but I didn't count on Ehrenreich's breezy and informative tour through the history of cell biology and immunology, nor her forays into philosophy, psychology, psychedelics, and religion. She presents all of the above in a lively journalistic style that made Natural Causes a page-turner, even for a 50-year-old who last studied biology in 9th grade! Short book that still occasionally seems padded or overly discursive with its criticism of modern medicine, science ( aspects of science historically rather), modern lifestyle trends in health and wellness, class consciousness, and so on. Much of this will be familiar to anyone who has read her most recent books. I think this was patched together from articles. I did appreciate the reflections on aging and foregoing intrusive medical testing.
“Natural Causes” is peevish, tender and deeply, distinctively odd — and often redeemed by its oddness. Ehrenreich is so offended by the American conflation of health with virtue and offers charming contrarian essays on the “defiant self-nurturance” of cigarette smoking, for example, and the dangers of eating fruit. The pleasures of her prose are often local, in the animated language, especially where scientific descriptions are concerned. Her description of cells rushing to staunch a wound is so full of wonder and delight that it recalls Italo Calvino. Listes notables
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