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Bezig met laden... Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer (editie 2019)door Barbara Ehrenreich (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkOud genoeg om dood te gaan : over de vragen die iedereen zich ooit moet… door Barbara Ehrenreich
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. So well written and well researched. There is a lot to think about in this book. I will be buying my own copy. ( ) 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!
“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. Erelijsten
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HTML: From the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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