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📖 Second-hand book "Being the Enemy of the Body" [80% new]
📖 Second-hand book "Being the Enemy of the Body" [80% new]
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A book of confessions by the most influential female intellectual in the United States after she recovered from cancer:
Uncovering the lies of so-called "green and healthy life" and triggering public reflection
She is not only a cancer survivor, but also an expert in cell biology. She has written a book based on her years of anti-cancer experience, and she has come to a surprising conclusion:
All your efforts for health may be in vain!
This is a profound confession from a cancer survivor: the harder you work, the more you become an enemy of your body.
A new work by Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of "My Life at the Bottom" and "Out of Control Positive Thinking"!
■ The health rules believed by 99% of people in the world are actually a tax on IQ?
Everyone firmly believes that active fitness, regular physical examinations, diet control and staying optimistic can maximize physical health.
But is this really the case?
■ “What’s the point of living if you can’t even control your own body?” Have you ever been kidnapped by this sentence?
In order to stay healthy, we lift weights, run circles, and try hard to suppress our cravings for too much food.
■ We can never control our bodies.
No matter how advanced technology becomes, humans will never be able to fully control their own bodies.
The body is not a well-ordered machine; the conflict among cells in the body never stops.
Contents:
"The Enemy of the Body" is a highly anticipated new book by the famous American sociologist Barbara Ehrenreich. In this book, she raises a shocking and thought-provoking question: Can the body really be controlled by the human mind and wisdom?
There is no doubt that humans are confident.
The development of science and technology and the progress of medicine seem to have given people a false sense of "victory": maintaining good health is something that can be controlled by ourselves, so we are keen on fitness, spend a lot of money on healthy food, have regular physical examinations, and require ourselves to abandon pessimism and turn to optimism. However, Barbara, the author of "Being the Enemy of the Body", uses her own experience of suffering from cancer as an introduction, and through her profound professional knowledge of biological cytology, many years of social practice experience and historical and cultural literacy, she draws the conclusion through several cases: the body is by no means a carrier that humans can easily control, the development of genes and cells has its own way of operation, and it is difficult for human science to become long-lived by change.
In other words, the means we have long believed to maintain health are, to some extent, our enemies in the body.
About the Author
Barbara Ehrenreich, born in 1941, holds a Ph.D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University. She is an American best-selling author, journalist, social critic, and columnist for Time magazine. She is also an active feminist and social movement advocate, actively participating in organizations such as women's rights, civic health, and legal reform.
Ehrenreich was born into a coal miner's family. When she was in college, she was inspired by the anti-war movement, so she gave up her teaching position and devoted herself to writing and social movements, paying special attention to the people at the bottom of society. She has also taught at famous international universities such as New York University, Columbia University, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Ehrenreich has published nearly 20 books, most of which are non-fiction works, including the New York Times bestsellers My Life at the Bottom and Out of Control Positive Thinking.
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