Killer Fat : : Media, Medicine, and Morals in the American "Obesity Epidemic" /

Killer Fat : : Media, Medicine, and Morals in the American "Obesity Epidemic" / / Peter Mickulas, Natalie Boero.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Boero, Natalie,
Mickulas, Peter,
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

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