• J Health Polit Policy Law · Oct 2014

    Critical perspectives on wellness.

    • Anna Kirkland.
    • University of Michigan.
    • J Health Polit Policy Law. 2014 Oct 1;39(5):971-88.

    AbstractWorkplace wellness programs are written into law as exceptions to otherwise protective antidiscrimination provisions, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act expands employers' ability to treat workers differently based on their health. Rather than assume that wellness programs promote health and save money, here I approach them as legally sanctioned discrimination. What exactly wellness discrimination might look like in practice across many contexts is an open question, but there is good reason to be wary of the power of wellness to create and reproduce hierarchy, to promote homogeneity, narrow-mindedness, and moralism about how to live one's life, and to cover for discrimination based on health, weight, income, age, pregnancy, and disability.Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press.

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