|
Showing 1 - 2 of
2 matches in All Departments
There is considerable rhetoric and concern about weight and obesity
across an increasing range of national contexts. Alarmist claims
about an 'obesity time-bomb' are continually recycled in policy
reports, reviews and white papers, each of which begin with the
assumption that fatness is fundamentally unhealthy and damaging to
national economies. With contributions from the UK, Canada, the USA
and Australia, this book offers alternative critical perspectives
on this alleged public health crisis which were, in part, developed
through an Economic and Social Research Council seminar series on
Fat Studies and Health at Every Size (HAES). Written by scholars
from a range of disciplines and the health professions, themes
include: an interrogation of statistical procedures used to
construct the obesity epidemic, overweight and obesity as cultural
signifiers for Type 2 diabetes, understandings of healthy eating
and healthy weight in a 'problem' population, gendered expectations
on men and women to lose weight, the visual representation of
obesity, tensions when researching (anti-)fatness, critical
dietitians' engagement with HAES, alternative ways of promoting
physical activity, and representations of obesity in the media.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical
Public Health.
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.