Killer Fat : Media, Medicine, and Morals in the American "Obesity Epidemic" /
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2012.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Obesity as a "leading health indicator": public health, moral entrepreneurs, and a confluence of interests
- All the news that's fat to print: the American "obesity epidemic" and the media
- Normative pathology and unique disease: Weight Watchers, Overeaters Anonymous, and behavioral treatments for the obesity epidemic
- Bypassing blame: bariatric surgery, normative femininity, and the case of biomedical failure
- Conclusion: health at every size or thin at any price?