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English Summary/英文概要： Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the wellness syndrome.
In this ground–breaking new book, Carl Cederström and André Spicer argue that the ever–present pressure to maximize our wellness has started to work against us, making us feel worse and provoking us to withdraw into ourselves. The Wellness Syndrome follows health freaks who go to extremes to find the perfect diet, corporate athletes who start the day with a dance party, and the self–trackers who monitor everything, including their own toilet habits. This is a world where feeling good has become indistinguishable from being good. Visions of social change have been reduced to dreams of individual transformation, political debate has been replaced by insipid moralising, and scientific evidence has been traded for new–age delusions. A lively and humorous diagnosis of the cult of wellness, this book is an indispensable guide for everyone suspicious of our relentless quest to be happier and healthier.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 没有想象中的那么激动？睡梦中也在数着自己的卡路里？因为没有更快乐而羞愧？如果你具有以上症状，那么你一定是健康症的受害者。
在这部突破性的全新书籍作品中，卡尔•赛德斯特姆和安德里•斯派瑟认为一直以来最大化我们健康状态的压力已经开始逐渐反过来影响我们，这些压力让我们感觉越来越糟糕，并使得我们慢慢缩回到我们自己的小世界中。《健康症》将带领读者去一窥：健康达人们所找寻出的极致健康食谱，“企业运动员”们如何以舞蹈派对的形式开始一天的工作，自我追踪者们习惯性地管控一切，甚至他们的厕所习惯。在如今的世界里，感觉良好已经逐渐和活的良好融为一起，不再有明确的界限划分。人们对于社会改革的美好愿景已经逐渐降低为个人改造梦想的实现，政治辩论也已经为索然无味的道德教化所取代，科学论证也已经被偷换概念成了新时代的妄想与错觉。本书生动而不乏幽默，对当下人们对于健康的狂热诊断提供了一种不可或缺的指引，如果你怀疑我们无止境的追求，有关于如何变得更加快乐和健康，那么本书你一定不容错过。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况： “《健康症》就像一艘潜水艇，悄悄潜入看似平静的表面之下，这种表面是对于当代意识形态的描述，在真正产生毁灭性的影响和开始破坏之前，就已经在所有新式的文字表述上成为了一种最恶性的存在，那便是：积极性。”----汤姆•马凯西，作家，著有Remainder , C and Satin Island
"The Wellness Syndrome slinks like a submarine beneath the disingenuously placid surface–narratives of contemporary ideology, before torpedoing, with devastating effect, that most pernicious of all neo–liberal doctrines: positiveness." - Tom McCarthy, author of Remainder , C and Satin Island
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