List of Figure and Tablesvii
About the Editorsviii
About the Contributorsix
Introduction: Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures 
Naomi Smith, Clare Southerton and Marianne Clark1
Section 1: Wellness, Whiteness and Conspiracy Cultures
Chapter 1. The Body Complex: (Con)spirituality, Wellness and COVID-19 in Australia 
Anna Halafoff, Ruth Fitzpatrick and Cristina Rocha15
Chapter 2. COVID-19 Mis/Disinformation in Online Wellness Communities: Narratives of Individualism and Practices of Networked Resistance 
Ashleigh Haw, Jay Daniel Thompson and Rob Cover33
Chapter 3. Looking Good, Feeling Good and Refusing the Jab: Tracing the Relationships Between Healthism, Wellness Culture and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy 
Naomi Smith, Marianne Clark and Clare Southerton47
Section 2: Lived Wellness Practice
Chapter 4. Measuring Wellbeing: A Critical Rapid Review of Scales Used in Advanced Cancer Contexts 
Alexandra Smith, Rebecca Olson, Maddison Cuerton, Keesha Abdul Khalil, Phillip Good and Janet Hardy63
Chapter 5. Search Inside Yourself: Google, Mindfulness, and Workplace Wellbeing 
Leanne Downing81
Chapter 6. Wellness Washing: Wellness, Work and the Transformation of Pleasure 
Naomi Smith, Alexia Maddox, Jenny L. Davis and Monica Barratt95
Section 3: The ‘Wellness Body’, Food and Diet Culture
Chapter 7. ‘I Just Have to Remember that My Body is Different’: Asian-Australian Women’s Experiences with Wellness Culture 
Clare Davies113
Chapter 8. ‘Relaxed Restriction’: ‘What I Eat In A Day’ Videos and the Persistence of Diet Culture 
Justine Topham127
Chapter 9. Combatting Wellness Misinformation on YouTube: The Case of Abbey Sharp 
Edith Hill139
Chapter 10. ‘Having it All’: Wellness Culture, Instagram Bodies and ‘Perfect Lives’ in a Time of Global Ecological Crisis 
Julia Coffey153
Index167

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