Fat in the Fifties : America's First Obesity Crisis /

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Fat in the Fifties is required reading for public health practitioners and researchers, physicians, historians of medicine, and anyone concerned about weight and weight loss.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rasmussen, Nicolas, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Obesity.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Obesite > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
History, 20th Century
Obesity > history
Obesity > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Fat and the public health before the second World War
  • Obesity becomes a mental disorder
  • The postwar heart alarm : new attention to an old hazard
  • Fighting heart disease one calorie at a time in cold war suburbia
  • The new epidemiology and its impact
  • The disappearance of obesity as a public health problem.

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