Health or healthy: Why people are not sick in a Southern Ontarian town

The purpose of this paper is to explore 'being healthy' and what it means to people living in a small Ontarian town. It begins by setting out different definitions of health, concluding that 'being healthy' may help in understanding how we see ourselves and others in the world. After briefly discussing the site and method of investigation, the paper runs to drawing the distinction between health and 'being healthy' empirically. It goes on to …