The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality and Ideology

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Routledge, 28 abr 2005 - 232 páginas
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Increasing obesity levels are currently big news but do we think carefully enough about what this trend actually means? Everybody – including doctors, parents, teachers, sports clubs, businesses and governments – has a role to play in the ‘war on obesity’. But is talk of an obesity ‘crisis’ justified? Is it the product of measured scientific reasoning or age-old ‘habits of mind’? Why is it happening now? And are there potential risks associated with talking about obesity as an ‘epidemic’?

The Obesity Epidemic proposes that obesity science and the popular media present a complex mix of ambiguous knowledge, familiar (yet unstated) moral agendas and ideological assumptions.

 

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List of illustrations Acknowledgements
Science and fatness
The war on obesity
The ghost of a machine
a brief history of obesity science
weighing the obesity epidemic
The search for a cause
Obesity science for the people
Feminism and the obesity epidemic
risk and the ethics of body weight
Beyond body weight
References
Index
Página de créditos

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Sobre el autor (2005)

Michael Gard is Senior Lecturer in Physcial Education at Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Jan Wright is a Professor of Education and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

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TítuloThe Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality and Ideology
AutoresMichael Gard, Jan Wright
Ediciónilustrada
EditorRoutledge, 2005
ISBN1134365640, 9781134365647
N.º de páginas232 páginas
  
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