The wellbeing ‘pandemic’ – how the global drive for wellness might be making us sick

  • Written by: Steven James Jackson, Professor and Co-Director, New Zealand Centre for Sport Policy & Politics, University of Otago
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Are we in the midst of a wellbeing pandemic? The question may seem curious, even contradictory. But look around, the concept is everywhere and spreading: in the media, in government institutions and transnational organisations, in schools, in workplaces and in the marketplace.

To be clear, it’s not just wellbeing’s...

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