The obesity epidemic : science, morality and ideology
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Michael Gard; Jan Wright
- ناشر : London : Routledge
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2005
- شابک / ISBN : 9780415318952
Description
1. Science and Fatness 2. The War on Obesity 3. The Ghost of a Machine 4. 'Modernity's Scourge':Weighing in the 'obesity epidemic' 6. The search for a cause 7. Obesity Scienc for the People 8. Feminism and the 'obesity epidemic' 9. Interrogating expert knowledge: risk and the ethics of body weight 10. Beyond Body Weight / A brief history of obesity science 5. Fat or Fiction.
Obesity associated with declining levels of physical activity is now a critical theme in health and exercise. This controversial book suggests the scientific community may have been complacent in its analysis of the crisis, and provides thorough and.
