Rethinking Obesity: Critical Perspectives in Crisis Times

by Emma Rich, Andrea E Bombak, Lee F Monaghan, et al.

Theoretically informed and empirically grounded, 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-centred health paradigm and world war on obesity. Building upon existing international literature from critical weight...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138999741
• ISBN13: 9781138999749
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"