Historic New Scientist article about tackling the semantics of “health”.
The objections are to the ways in which the rhetoric of health is being used to promote value judgements, hierarchies, and blind assumptions that speak as much about power and privilege as they do about well-being. This has become frustratingly clear in the US political arena, where battles over healthcare plans thinly veil divergent assumptions about health, responsibility, and what it is to be a person.
