6 Quotes by James Hamblin

As we change our worlds, we change our bodies. The old duality between environmental health and human health is obsolete.

Health means different things to different people, but it’s always associated with a certain level of freedom—especially financial and temporal—that allows people to live well, and to focus on relationships and meaningful work.

Self and other is less of a dichotomy than a continuum.

[E]ven our most personal decisions about caring for our bodies have long been influenced and manipulated by larger power structures.

The best advice right now is to think of hygiene as similar to medicine—extremely important in some scenarios, and also very possible to overdo.

Capitalism sells nothing so effectively as status.