a lifestyle that prioritizes health and fitness over anything else
Examples of 'healthism' in a sentence
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This may mitigate healthism and health disparities.
Britta Pelters, Åsa Roxberg 2018, '“Don't stop believing!” From health religiosity to an equality-enhancing hermeneuticof health promotion', International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Beinghttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2018.1555420. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
He was an outspoken critic of modern medicine, particularly of what he called ‘coercive healthism'.
Seamus O'Mahony 2019, 'Petr Skrabanek: the abominable no-man', The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburghhttps://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/jrcpe_49_1_omahony.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Consequently, the concept of healthism was used to discuss and contextualize orthorexia.
Linn Håman, Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Göran Patriksson, Eva-Carin Lindgren 2015, 'Orthorexia nervosa: An integrative literature review of a lifestyle syndrome', International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Beinghttp://www.ijqhw.net/index.php/qhw/article/view/26799/41598. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
I argue that the self-regulation advanced by digital healthism insufficiently addresses the politics of media refusal.
Adam Fish 2017, 'Technology Retreats and the Politics of Social Media', tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critiquehttps://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/807. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)