Phobia of sicknesses leads to ‘Angelina Jolie syndrome’
The politicization and commercialization of health issues in today’s Western culture have led to growing healthism - a peremptory idea of self - preserving behaviour.
This approach criticizes everything that fails to fit into the glamorous standards of a beautiful, young and slim body. In extreme forms, healthism is close to eugenics, which selects a ‘correct’ heredity.