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What's Wrong with Health - A Feminist Critique of Wellness Culture

Thursday, 11 April, 2024

Talia Welsh, Ph.D., is a UTAA Distinguished Service Professor and UC Foundation Professor. She is the Director of Integrated Studies, a Professor of Philosophy, and a Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She researches Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work in child psychology and philosophy and has published extensively in feminist theory, particularly on parenting, pregnancy, and how bodies are normalized in health care. Her books include the translation of Merleau-Ponty’s lectures in child psychology and pedagogy in the volume Child Psychology & Pedagogy: Maurice Merleau-Ponty at the Sorbonne (Northwestern University Press, 2010), The Child as Natural Phenomenologist: Primal and Primary Experience in Merleau-Ponty’s Psychology (Northwestern University Press, 2013), Feminist Existentialism, Biopolitics, and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of Bad Health (Routledge, 2022), and the co-edited volume Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty (SUNY Press, 2022). You can reach me at Talia-Welsh@utc.edu

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