EAN: 9781785787898

WELL BEINGS - JAMES RILEY GEBUNDEN

James Riley  author of the cult hit The Bad Trip: Dark Omens  New Worlds and the End of the
Sixties  returns with another incisive and thought-provoking cultural history  turning his
trenchant eye to the wellness industry that emerged in the 1970s. Concepts such as wellness and
self-care may feel like distinctly twenty-first century ideas  but they first gained traction
as part of the New Age health movements that began to flourish in the wake of the 1960s. Riley
dives into this strange and hypnotic world of panoramic coastal retreats and darkened
floatation tanks  blending a page-turning narrative with illuminating explorations of the era's
music  film  art and literature. Well Beings delves deep into the mind of the seventies - its
popular culture  its radical philosophies  its approach to health and its sense of social
crisis. It tells the story of what was sought  what was found and how these explorations helped
the 'Me Decade' find itself. In so doing  it questions what good health means today and reveals
what the seventies can teach us about the strange art of being well.

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