Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer

Drawing on her PhD in cellular immunology, Ehrenreich argues that much of modern preventive medicine, wellness culture, and the anti-aging industry sells false control over a body and a mortality we cannot ultimately command. She examines how the immune system can itself abet disease, and makes the case for accepting the limits of medicine and the certainty of death rather than killing ourselves to live longer.