Self-optimization

Vol. 49, 2019/4 - pages

Pages 639 to 651

Introduction

By Sébastien Dalgalarrondo, Tristan Fournier, translated by Rachel Gomme

Pages 653 to 670

The history of coaching and its moralities (1930–2018)

By Scarlett Salman

Pages 671 to 686

When sports is put at the service of management: The shaping of the “high-level employee”

By Yan Dalla Pria

Pages 687 to 700

Optimizing one’s beauty, taking aesthetic control of one’s body: Success and failure in beauty pageants

By Camille Couvry, Marion Braizaz

Pages 701 to 718

(Micro)“psychedelic” experiences: From workplace creativity in the 1960s to twenty-first-century neuro-newspeak

By Milana Aronov

Pages 719 to 734

Perfectionism through numbers? How self-tracking technologies fit within individuals’ self-optimization projects

By Éric Dagiral

Pages 735 to 750

Food sensitivities and bodily sedition: From vulnerability to a moral ideal?

By Virginie Wolff, translated from the French by John Angell

Pages 751 to 767

Staying on course. Bodies, masculinities, and food practices during the “critical age”

By Nicoletta Diasio, Vulca Fidolini

Pages 769 to 786

Veganism: Abolition through nutrition. Vitamin B12 supplements for the vegan diet

By Sébastien Mouret, translated from the French by John Angell

Pages 787 to 801

“Liberation! A true liberation!”: Being childfree and sterilized

By Emma Tillich, translated from the French by John Angell

Pages 803 to 812

Health care professionals “coming out”: A critical dialogue

By John Coveney, Lee Thompson

Pages 813 to 819

Edgar Cabanas and Eva Illouz, Happycratie. Comment l’industrie du bonheur a pris le contrôle de nos vies, Paris, Premier Parallèle, 2018, 260 p.

By Sabine Mégarbané

Pages 820 to 826

Céline Lafontaine, Le Corps-marché. La marchandisation de la vie humaine à l’ère de la bioéconomie, Paris, Seuil, 2014, 288 p.

By Pierre Wiltz

Pages 827 to 837

Reviews

Pages 839 to 853

Battle! The pastoral or the world scene in the Western Pyrénées

By Patricia Heiniger-Castéret

Pages 855 to 877

“They may not have been ducks.” The anthropologist put to the test of intersubjectivity

By Anath Ariel de Vidas