Debrief: Definitely not about wellbeing

摘要

Stuck behind our closed doors it is easy to slide out of view and into trouble. It can, ironically, be very lonely seeing all these people. This professional isolation harms our, I hate to say it, wellbeing. Let’s pause there for a second. One has to be a proper contrarian to be against wellbeing as such. But let me try. We all know it started with the World Health Organization and their definition of health as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.’1 It hasn’t been amended since 1948. Where’s the endpoint? The fantasy of an absurdist utopian society of perfect health drives medicalisation.