Healthism

As Healthism (roughly corresponding to the term health craze ) refers to an exaggerated, irrational and ideologically-driven concern for the health of an individual or a population. The term was first used by R. Crawford, who in a 1980 article described an extension of the concept of health in all areas of life, and thus over- value the health thinking.

Was taken up the idea of ​​the toxicologists, epidemiologists and medical critic Petr Skrabanek, author of Follies and fallacies in medicine. He published his death in 1994, the book The Death of Humane Medicine and the Rise of Coercive Healthism (death of human medicine and promotion of coercion to health). He describes it as a " health ideology " which reglementiere health behaviors of citizens radically. Defined in the first part of his work and he criticized " healthism " ( "when health is not just a personal yearning but is part of state ideology " ) as a social problem and part of a state ideology. The smoker Skrabanek in 1998 discredited as a scientist, as a document of the tobacco company Philip Morris described him as "advisors ".

James Le Fanu 2000 defined the term as a kind of behavioral disorder mentally unstable people, even as health hysteria translatable. It was described by Le Fanu as inspired by the medicine 's obsession with ridiculous or non-existent health threats.