The Obesity Epidemic Science Morality and Ideology 1st Edition by Michael Gard 0415318955 9780415318952

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ISBN 10: 0415318955

ISBN 13: 9780415318952

Author: Michael Gard, Jan Wright

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.

The Obesity Epidemic Science Morality and Ideology 1st Table of contents:

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 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

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