The Illusion of Better: An Exploration of Sickness and Self-Care

Peloton and pilates. Remedy and recovery. Journalists Amy Larocca and Mallary Tenore Tarpley question health, self-care, and science in this joint conversation on sickness and wellness. In How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time, Larocca deftly dissects the wellness, beauty, and fashion industries to challenge the practices they promote and the social assumptions in their logic. In Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery, Tarpley blends personal narrative and research in an investigation of the tenuous space between sickness and recovery in eating disorder treatment. Drawing on their journalistic backgrounds, both authors wield original reporting and research to craft groundbreaking examinations of what it means to be healthy.