Rethinking Obesity: Critical Perspectives in Crisis Times

by Emma Rich, Andrea E Bombak, Lee F Monaghan

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138999717
• ISBN13: 9781138999718
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"