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Joyce Bean
Erasmus Prize winner, 2018
Best-selling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.
A razor-sharp polemic that offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, Natural Causes describes how we overprepare and worry way too much about what is inevitable. One by one, Ehrenreich topples the shibboleths that guide our attempts to live a long, healthy life—from the importance of preventive medical screenings to the concepts of wellness and mindfulness, from dietary fads to fitness culture.
But Natural Causes goes deeper—into the fundamental unreliability of our bodies and even our "mind-bodies", to use the fashionable term. Starting with the mysterious and seldom-acknowledged tendency of our own immune cells to promote deadly cancers, Ehrenreich looks into the cellular basis of aging and shows how little control we actually have over it. We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds, and even over the manner of our deaths. But the latest science shows that the microscopic subunits of our bodies make their own "decisions", and not always in our favor.
We may buy expensive antiaging products or cosmetic surgery, get preventive screenings and eat more kale, or throw ourselves into meditation and spirituality. But all these things offer only the illusion of control. How to live well, even joyously, while accepting our mortality—that is the vitally important philosophical challenge of this book.
Drawing on varied sources, from personal experience and sociological trends to pop culture and current scientific literature, Natural Causes examines the ways in which we obsess over death, our bodies, and our health. Both funny and caustic, Ehrenreich then tackles the seemingly unsolvable problem of how we might better prepare ourselves for the end—while still reveling in the lives that remain to us.
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"Ehrenreich's sharp and fearless take on mortality privileges joy over juice fasts and argues that, regardless of how many hours we spend in the gym, death wins out. An incisive, clear-eyed polemic, NATURAL CAUSES relaxes into the realization that the grim reaper is considerably less grim than a life spent in terror of a fate that awaits us all."—Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Evicted
"...[A] provocative, informative, hilarious, and deeply moving book. A must read."—Arlie Hochschild, New York Times bestselling author of Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
"Throughout the text, [Ehrenreich] employs the erudition that earned her degree, the social consciousness that has long informed her writing, and the compassion that endears her to her many fans...A powerful text that floods the mind with illumination—and with agonizing questions."—Kirkus (starred review)
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This book will give you a better understanding of American healthcare and then virtually in the other book that I’ve come across. Unfortunately what you learn isn’t necessarily going to make you feel better. But it might make your final 5-25 years a better life.
If you are OLD, it’s a must read
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She points out that some people do all the right things and still get cancer or drop dead of a heart attack. Life makes no guarantees and apparently not a whole lot of sense to her. Then you die. So ... what? She still does good works and contributes in ways most of us can only hope of doing; I'm just not sure why she went on this particular rant.
I'll ignore Ms. Ehrenreich's Natural Causes for now and keep exercising as best I can, eating right as best I can, and enjoying and contributing as best I can. And I hope she cheers up.
Barbara Ehrenreich is really mad at ... something!
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The end's the best part. Didn't have to be so long
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a Powerful statement
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Cranky
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A book worth reading again
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vibrant
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Just Plain Wrong.
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Barbara Ehrenreich is brilliant!
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All over the place and a tad cynical
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