Utopia & Health: Exploring a World Without Illness & Suffering

A world without fat people, without sick people or depressed people: Donald Trump’s America is in the process of adopting policies that flirt dangerously with the eugenic theses of the end of the 19th century^e century, which advocated human selection on genetic criteria, infamous for having been used by the Nazis.

Latest example: a directive transmitted by cable, on November 6, to American embassies around the world which requires consular agents to refuse the issuance of visas to foreigners who are obese, diabetic, depressed, suffering from cardiovascular, respiratory diseases, cancer or…