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How do the media represent obesity and eating disorders? How are these representations related to one another? And how do the news media select which scientific findings and policy decisions to report? Multi-disciplinary in approach, Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media presents critical new pers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Karin, Eli (Editor ), Ulijaszek, Stanley J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]
Temas:
Obesity in mass media.
Obesity > Social aspects.
Eating disorders > Social aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media / Stanley Ulijaszek
  • pt. I RHETORICS OF ABJECTION AND ALARM
  • 2. Alarming Engagements? Exploring Pro-Anorexia Websites in/and the Media / Anna Lavis
  • 3. Obesity in the US Media, 1990
  • 2011: Broad Strokes, Broad Consequences / Natalie C. Boero
  • 4. Invisible Fat: The Aesthetics of Food and the Body / Josephine Wennerholm
  • 5. From Abject Eating to Abject Being: Representations of Obesity in 'Supersize vs. Superskinny' / Anna Lavis
  • pt. II REPRESENTATIONS OF SCIENCE AND POLICY
  • 6. Mothers as Smoking Guns: Fetal Overnutrition and the Reproduction of Obesity / Michael Davies
  • 7. Eating Disorders in the Media: The Changing Nature of UK Newspaper Reports / Clive Seale
  • 8. Making the 'Obesity Epidemic': The Role of Science and the News Media / Rene Almeling
  • 9. Obesity, Government and the Media / Stanley Ulijaszek
  • 10. Heavy Viewing: Emergent Frames in Contemporary News Coverage of Obesity / Helena A. Shugart.

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