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Michael Gard & Jan Wright
Obesity Epidemic [PDF ebook]
Science, Morality and Ideology

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Increasing obesity levels are currently big news but do we think carefully enough about what this trend actually means? Everybody – including doctors, parents, teachers, sports clubs, businesses and governments – has a role to play in the ‚war on obesity‘. But is talk of an obesity ‚crisis‘ justified? Is it the product of measured scientific reasoning or age-old ‚habits of mind‘? Why is it happening now? And are there potential risks associated with talking about obesity as an ‚epidemic‘? The Obesity Epidemic proposes that obesity science and the popular media present a complex mix of ambiguous knowledge, familiar (yet unstated) moral agendas and ideological assumptions.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 232 ● ISBN 9780203619308 ● Verlag Taylor and Francis ● Erscheinungsjahr 2005 ● herunterladbar 6 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 2294702 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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