Rethinking Obesity

Critical Perspectives in Crisis Times

Andrea E. (Foothills Medical Centre Bombak & Lee F. Monaghan & Emma Rich

Critical Approaches to Health: Rethinking Obesity

Rethinking Obesity invites readers to reconsider the medical and public health framing of population weight (gain) as a massive global problem, epidemic or crisis. Attentive to social values, scientific uncertainty and possible harms, the book furthers critique of the weight-centered health paradigm and world war on obesity.

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Beschrijving Critical Approaches to Health: Rethinking Obesity

ISBN: 9781138999749
Pagina's: 286
Verschenen: 17-05-2022
Serie: Critical Approaches to Health
Rubriek: Gezondheid en geneeskunde

Druk: 1
Uitvoering: Paperback
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Taylor & Francis Ltd

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