ABSTRACT
The conclusion summarises the book’s arguments and themes and looks to the future of the perception and misperception of health and well-being and euphoria. It suggests that at some point in time these histories might come to an end. The existence of health as a concept arguably, at least in part, reflects a human ignorance of the full complexity of the body. The possibility of perceiving health flourishes within that ignorance and easily overcomes it. Euphoria as a word that names the perception or misperception of health similarly exists as a form of consolation. It probably could not survive the coming of complex medical knowledge and certainty into the world of the everyday. Because health is so intertwined with notions of good existence or well-being, it is possible that the end of one might bring the end of the other. Such changes, however, if they do come, will come far into the future. For now, as in much of the past, the history of the perception and misperception of health and well-being and euphoria endures.
