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Obesity in Canada : critical perspectives /
"Medical professionals, social policy makers, and the media have all declared that Canada is in the grip of an obesity epidemic. Conceptualizing obesity as a biological condition, these experts insist that it needs to be "prevented" and "managed." Obesity in Canada takes a b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Obesity in Canada / Jenny Ellison, Deborah McPhail and Wendy Mitchinson
- Part One: Critical Perspectives on Obesity Science. 1. Hearing Noises and Noticing Silence: Towards a Critical Engagement with Canadian Body Weight Statistics / Michael Gard
- 2. "Obesity" as Process: The Medicalization of Fatness by Canadian Researchers, 1971-2010 / Elise Paradis
- 3. The Geneticization of Aboriginal Diabetes and Obesity: Adding Another Scene to the Story of the Thrifty Gene / Jennifer Poudrier
- 4. Diabesity or the "Twin Epidemics": Reflections on the Iatrogenic Consequences of Stigmatizing Lifestyle to Reduce the Incidence of Diabetes Mellitus in Canada / Darlene McNaughton and Cynthia Smith
- 5. Spoon Fed: Learning about "Obesity" in Dietetics / Julie E. Rochefort, Andrea Senchuk, Jennifer Brady and Jacqui Gingras
- 6. Aboriginal People's Clinical Encounters with Obesity: A Conversation with Barry Interview / Deborah McPhail
- Part Two: Who is Responsible for Obesity? 7. Mother Blaming and Obesity: An Alternative Perspective / Wendy Mitchinson
- 8. Obesity, Risk, and Responsibility: The Discursive Production of the "Ultimate At-Risk Child" / Pamela Ward
- 9. Obesity Panic, Body Surveillance, and Pedagogy: Elementary Teachers' Response to "Obesity Messaging" / LeAnne Petherick and Natalie Beausoleil
- 10. Find Your Greatness: Responsibility, Policy and the Problem of Childhood Obesity / Charlene Elliott
- Part Three: Representations Of, and Responses To, Obesity. 11. From "FU" to "Be Yourself": Fat Activisms in Canada / Jenny Ellison
- 12. Having Your Jiggs Dinner and Eating It, Too: Newfoundland Obesity and the Affects of Tradition / Deborah McPhail
- 13. Screening the Un-Scene: Deconstructing the (Bio)politics of Story Telling in a Canadian Reality Makeover Weight Loss Series / Moss E. Norman, Genevieve Rail and Shannon Jette
- 14. Fat Authenticity and the Pursuit of Hetero-Romantic Love in Vancouver: The Case of Online Dating / Jacqueline Schoemaker Holmes
- Part Four: Inconclusions. 15. "Celebrating Unruly Experiences": Queering Health at Every Size as a Response to the Politics of Postponement / Jennifer Brady and Jacqui Gingras
- 16. Re-Visioning Fat: From Enforcing Norms to Exploring Possibilities Unique to Different Bodies / Carla Rice.