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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Ngôn ngữ Anh ● định dạng PDF ● Trang 232 ● ISBN 9780203619308 ● Nhà xuất bản Taylor and Francis ● Được phát hành 2005 ● Có thể tải xuống 6 lần ● Tiền tệ EUR ● TÔI 2294702 ● Sao chép bảo vệ Adobe DRM
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