For the Old Mole Variety Hour, July 2, 2012
The term "healthism" is used in two different ways. In the more neutral or positive sense, it just refers to self-care, and if you do a web search for "healthism," some of the sites you'll find simply offer information about nutrition, exercise, home remedies, things like that. But the term also has a more negative sense, that arises from reflection on the very pervasiveness, but also narrowness and coerciveness, of that information about personal health.