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# What is the opposite of health? # What is the opposite of health?
David Harvey remarked that under capitalism, to be healthy is defined simply by the ability to perform labour - this is why people need a doctor’s note to certify that they are sick so they can skip work. However, many do not agree with this narrow definition. David Harvey remarked that under capitalism, to be healthy is defined simply by the ability to perform labour (DavidHarvey,“The Body as Accumulation Strategy,” *Spaces of Hope*, Berkeley:2000,
pp. 97–116) - this is why people need a doctor’s note to certify that they are sick so they can skip work. However, many do not agree with this narrow definition.
The struggles for health in Italy begun as the political questioning of its opposite – which these movements identified not as sickness nor as fitness, or the capacity to optimally perform work. Rather, political movements begun to focus on the key term nocività – translatable as noxiousness in English. The struggles for health in Italy begun as the political questioning of its opposite – which these movements identified not as sickness nor as fitness, or the capacity to optimally perform work. Rather, political movements begun to focus on the key term nocività – translatable as noxiousness in English.