Wellness, Social Policy and Public Health

Antonio Maturo is a medical sociologist and Professor at Bologna University, Italy. His latest books are Digital Health and the Gamification of Life with Veronica Moretti (Emerald, 2018) and Good Pharma with Donald Light (Palgrave, 2015). At Bologna University, Antonio is the Chair of the PhD Programme in Sociology and is responsible for the Bologna Unit of three Horizon2020 Projects. He has taught Medical Sociology for five years at Brown University, USA.Francesca Setiffi is Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture at the University of Padova, Italy. Her research covers consumer attitudes and beliefs, sharing economy, material culture and design, and cultures of organisations. Francesca has been visiting scholar at Boston University and Brown University, USA, and is member of Centre of Research of Consumer Strategies of Italian Families. She recently published Sociology of Consumption with P. Degli Esposti and C. Riva (Utet, 2019, in Italian).

• Introduction Chapter 1. The age of anxiety: between acceleration, performance and medicalization Chapter 2. Obesity, physical activity and healthism Chapter 3. Happiness, positive thinking and the medicalization of sadness Chapter 4. Well-being, welfare and social justice Conclusion