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Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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From the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.

A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, Natural Causes describes how we over-prepare 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 anti-aging 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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"...[R]ichly layered with evidence, stories and quotations...and sprinkled with barbed humor. Ehrenreich lets nobody off the hook, skewering Silicon Valley meditators and misogynist obstetricians with equal vigor. It's impossible to read this book without questioning the popular wisdom about the body and its upkeep. At the very least, you'll be able to make better decisions about how to work out, whether to have that mammogram and when to just order the steak."―BookPage

"Ehrenreich proves a fascinating guide to the science suggesting that our cells, like the macrophages that sometimes destroy and sometimes defend, can act unpredictably and yet not randomly."―The Atlantic

"[Ehrenreich's] description of cells rushing to staunch a wound is so full of wonder and delight that it recalls Italo Calvino...She sits in contemplation of death itself in the book's concluding, very beautiful passages, bringing to it her characteristic curiosity and awe at the natural world."―The New York Times

"This book is joyous. It is neither anti-medicine nor anti-prevention; it is pro-balance, pro-scepticism and pro-perspective. Paradoxically, Natural Causes is about hope. If you are struggling with choices that weigh hope in potential medical advances that damage quality of life against non-treatment and the acceptance of a terminal diagnosis, this may not offer much comfort, but...as with so many of Ehrenreich's books, NATURAL CAUSES is a much-needed tonic."―The Guardian

"Informative, provocative and entertaining."―The Times

"'Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth,' promised Archimedes. In Natural Causes, Barbara Ehrenreich has achieved an Archimedean feat. Her lever is made of erudition, acuity and irreverence; her place to stand is the perspective of cultural criticism; and she has turned the current understanding of body and self upon its head. To read this book is a relief: at last, what needed to be said!"―Jessica Riskin, author of The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tickp.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 27.0px; font: 21.0px Arial; color: #111111; -webkit-text-stroke: #111111; background-color: #ffffff}span.s1 {font-kerning: none}

Claiming to be 'old enough to die,' feminist scholar Ehrenreich (Living with a Wild God) takes on the task of investigating America's peculiar approach to aging, health, and wellness...Ehrenreich's sharp intelligence and graceful prose make this book largely pleasurable reading."―Publishers Weekly

"...[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

"Barbara Ehrenreich is a singular voice of sanity amid our national obsession with wellness and longevity. She is deeply well-informed about contemporary medical practices and their shortcomings, but she wears her learning lightly. NATURAL CAUSES is a delightful as well as an enlightening read. No one who cares about living (or dying) well can afford to miss it."―Jackson Lears, PhD, Editor in Chief of the Raritan Quarterly Review

"Engaging...Ehrenreich's scathing takedown of the wellness industry, New Age banalities and the epidemic of overdiagnosis will have you reconsidering how you live and die, and possibly second-guessing your next colonoscopy."―Newsweek

"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)

"Ehrenreich's observations about our culture-wide denial of bodily decay lead[s]...down distinct paths of interrogation and discovery. For all [her] research, [she is] not prepared to give us easy answers. Still...dry humor and raw, personal accounts help make thinking about our common fate bearable. We may have a few extra years yet to sip kale smoothies, run marathons and get tested for everything under the sun, but we ought not make physical health our ultimate hope."―Wall Street Journal

"[Ehrenreich] is one of our great iconoclasts, lucid, thought-provoking and instructive, never more so than here."―Blake Morrison, The Guardian

"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 CAUSESrelaxes into the realization that the grim reaper is considerably less grim than a life spent in terror of a fate that awaits us all."
―p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545}Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Evicted

"[Ehrenreich] offers a healthy dose of reformist philosophy combined with her trademark investigative journalism. In assessing our quest for a longer, healthier life, Ehrenreich provides a contemplative vision of an active, engaged health care that goes far beyond the physical restraints of the body and into the realm of metaphysical possibilities."―Booklist

"'Wham bam, thank you, ma'am' might be one response to this polemical, wry, hilarious and affecting series of counterintuitive essays by one of the most original and unexpected thinkers around...This is a book itself teeming with ideas and possibilities: maddening, stimulating, exciting and surprising, testifying in its own way to the expanding prospects of ideas that turn topsy-turvy, every-which-way as we try to make sense of the great unknowns."―The Arts Desk

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BARBARA EHRENREICH is the author of fourteen books, including the bestselling Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. She lives in Virginia.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0751CH1RS
  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Twelve; 1° edizione (10 aprile 2018)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 553 KB
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  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 257 pagine
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PHILIP A. STAHL
5,0 su 5 stelle A Terrific Dose Of Realism For Modern Health Perspectives
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 1 dicembre 2023
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This is easily my favorite book by Barbara Ehrenreich, having already read 'Nickel and Dimed' and 'Bright sided'. In 'Natural Causes' this former biochemist exposes the body's own complicity in rendering the disease of cancer almost undefeatable. She reveals the body's own macrophages as the ultimate 3rd column enemy. In normal conditions they act the body's 'blue collar workers' - disposing of dead and injured cells, acting as a vanguard of defense- but they could also quickly deviate into a more sinister role.

This occurs when they aid and abet any cancerous growth. In that case, "they served as cheerleaders of death accumulating at the site of cancerous tumors and encouraging their growth". And no amount of positive self-jabber, babbling happy talk or using glow globes stopped the disease and made you live longer. This was also one big reason she confessed in the book that after age 75 she'd submit to more cancer screening: no more mammograms, no more colonoscopies, nothing. She had come to the philosophical stance that 75 years was enough of this life and whatever happened, so be it.

Beyond a certain age, in fact, the battle against mortality becomes essentially futile. In the case of prostate cancer it arrives with what's called "castration resistance". (As it has for me) That is, despite the fact testosterone levels have plummeted naturally - or from hormone therapy, the PSA continues to rise (Mine is now 16.1 even after high dose brachytherapy and focal cryotherapy). No further PSA testing will provide any useful info, say to save your life. (One of the reasons for this resistance is that prostate cancer cells are capable of making their own testosterone, hence driving prostate specific antigens higher. Macrophages in action!)

In this respect, Ms. Ehrenreich's book has been of great value to me in seeing that chasing the next round of therapy or treatment can be self-defeating. All you are doing is exchanging quality of life for the years you may have remaining - for misery resulting from treatment side effects.

To counter this, Natural Causes' beckons the cancer patient to question the “constant exhortations to be positive about the disease, to be cheerful and optimistic.” Why? When the bloody disease is eating you away from the inside out, and the medical cognoscenti push you to endure ever more outrageous treatments and therapies that'd make a Navy Seal cry?

This book in my opinion may well be Ms. Ehrenreich's last, best legacy for those of us confronting cancer - or for that matter any other serious, life-threatening health issue.
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Wanderer75
5,0 su 5 stelle A real help when mulling over your mortality, and that of other people.
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 6 aprile 2020
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I was diagnosed with cancer several years ago. As well as reading up on my condition, and on cancer in general (Dr Servan Schreiber; Dr Susan Love; Pr Robert Weinberg) I've been reading up on death and dying issues and on health in disease in general (Dr Sherwin Nutland; Dr Atul Gawande; Dr Paul Kalanithi; Dr Martin Winckler; Susan Sonntag; Mitzi Blennerhassett). I had reread Barbara Ehrenreich's book Smile or Die after being diagnosed, and watched one of her videos on the subject, she had managed to make me laugh when she explained how she had ranted and grovelled throughout her cancer treatment!
Some chapters of this book are in the same vein as 'Smile or Die', but the book goes much, much deeper. It's taken me several months to read it, as I looked up some of the references, and there was really much to mull over. My favourite subject was probably the one about how our immune system can betray us: as someone who has auto-immune diseases, I sometimes joke with my doctors that if my immune system was an employee, I'd fire them and replace them with someone who is competent and can do the job properly... but unfortunately I'm stuck with them for the rest of my life.
I am an atheist, like Barbara Ehrenreich, and I don't have too much of a problem facing my own mortality, i.e. the fact that once I'm dead, that's it, I cease to exist altogether, I will no longer have a stream of consciousness, and nothing will survive, no soul or anything. It doesn't frighten me as much as a 'theist', even though I spend a lot more time thinking about death (and about living my life in a good way) than them, and I started to think of death as a small chilld, due to an early experience of bereavements and then of helping out on a farm, killing and slaughtering animals for food, or going out fishing, again for food. It's quite counterintuitive but it's also the experience of other atheists I've spoken with. Similarly, we're more frightened about physical pain than 'theists', and therefore we tend to favour euthanasia, the way it's done in Netherlands (where, in 2017, the number of patients who saw their request for euthanasia declined was equal to the number of patients who saw their request for euthanasia granted) or in Belgium.
However, if I don't fear my own death, I do fear the death of people I like, and especially the death of people I love... and at the beginning of this year, I lost someone I'd known for over half my life, and who has very, very dear to me. It was incredibly difficult for me, even though I should have been relieved that they were no longer in pain. I just wanted to turn back the clock and intervene in their life several decades ago, to try and avoid them developing this disease. After about a fortnight, I turned to Barbara Ehrenreich's book again, to try and focus on something else than this person's death (I was really not in the mood for any light reading), and I actually found it really, really helpful, and read it again from cover to cover, with a new perspective. In the epilogue, Barbara Ehrenreich quotes a poem which Bertold Brecht wrote on his death bed, about how to enjoy the sound of blackbirds singing outside when you know that they will carry on singing when you're gone. This poem was one which my dearly departed loved, and to find it in this book (which I hadn't finished when he died) felt like a sign from him, even though I consider he's gone for good, and it made me smile and cry at the same time, and think of those quiet evenings spent together looking at the blossoming cherry trees and the clouds floating in the blue sky, and listening to blackbirds singing... and I felt much more at peace. Help with the grieving process wasn't something I had expected to get out of this book, I just wanted to look at my own mortality, but this book helped me more than most of the books and articles and videos I've found over the past couple of months.
I think this is a book which one would need to read several times during one's life, when one is young and death seems far away, when one has had a bereavement and death seems closer, when one starts getting health issues (not life threatening yet) and when one gets a diagnosis for a potentially life threatening condition. I don't know whether it would help a young person who has been diagnosed with a terminal disease, it is written from the perspective of someone who has had a good life and is ready to go (though not eager to!). However, once you're middle aged, I think you start having the same perspective, and even if you don't have any serious condition yet and are in good health, you could get covid-19, you could get a car accident, you could get food poisoning... so thinking about your death (and drawing up your will, and filling up an advanced directives form) can't hurt, and this book is extremely well suited for the job.
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A terrific perspective and peaceful idea on what is self, dying and death. A family friend found beauty in everything around her, even her drinking cup, prior to her death. I now understand why.
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Como siempre, los libros de esta autora, son una fuente de información. Como ella es bióloga y ha padecido cáncer, sabe muy bien de lo que habla
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