Killer Fat : : Media, Medicine, and Morals in the American "Obesity Epidemic" / / Peter Mickulas, Natalie Boero.
In the past decade, obesity has emerged as a major public health concern in the United States and abroad. At the federal, state, and local level, policy makers have begun drafting a range of policies to fight a war against fat, including body-mass index (BMI) report cards, "snack taxes," a...
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2012] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 3 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Weighty Matters
- 1. Obesity as a "Leading Health Indicator": Public Health, Moral Entrepreneurs, and a Confluence of Interests
- 2. All the News That's Fat to Print: The American Obesity Epidemic and the Media
- 3. Normative Pathology and Unique Disease: Weight Watchers, Overeaters Anonymous, and Behavioral Treatments for the Obesity Epidemic
- 4. Bypassing Blame: Bariatric Surgery, Normative Femininity, and the Case of Biomedical Failure
- Conclusion: Health at Every Size or Thin at Any Price?
- Appendix: Methodology
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author