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The False Promises of Wellness Culture - JSTOR Daily

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Wellness is everywhere today: juice cleanses, Soulcycle classes, self-care. The roots of the trend can be found in nineteenth-century health-consciousness.

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. On a 1979 edition of 60 Minutes , Dan Rather declared: “Wellness. There’s a word you don’t hear every day. It means exactly what you might think it means: the opposite of illness…. It’s a movement that is catching on all over the country.” Later in the segment, Rather spoke to Dr. John W. Travis, founder of the Wellness Resource Center in Marin County, north of San Francisco. “Just because you aren’t sick,” Travis told Rather, “you don’t have any symptoms, and you could go get a checkup and get a clean bill of health, that d

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