Why Health?: What We Need to Think about When We Think about Health

Author/Contributor(s):	Galea, Sandro
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	09/01/2026
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

In Why Health?, Sandro Galea interrogates the assumptions that underlie contemporary health discourse. Informed by the success and failures of the pandemic moment, and drawing from philosophy, history, and public health, he explores how our understanding of health reflects broader anxieties about control, meaning, and progress. Through essays that are at once analytical and humane, this book challenges us to think beyond metrics and medicine, toward a richer understanding of what makes a good society. It offers a meditation on how health, rightly understood, can deepen rather than narrow our engagement with the world.