The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality and Ideology

ISBN-13: 9780415318969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 232 str.

Michael Gard; Jan Wright

Opis

In a broad ranging review of current thinking on obesity, the authors criticise much of the existing research for being biased by ideological & moral assumptions.

Spis treści

1. Science and Fatness 2. The War on Obesity 3. The Ghost of a Machine 4. 'Modernity's Scourge': A brief history of obesity science 5. Fat or Fiction: Weighing in the 'obesity epidemic' 6. The search for a cause 7. Obesity Science for the People 8. Feminism and the 'obesity epidemic' 9. Interrogating expert knowledge: risk and the ethics of body weight 10. Beyond Body Weight