The Real War on Obesity: Contesting Knowledge and Meaning in a Public Health Crisis

by John Boswell

Book Overview

This book sheds new light on the political battle to define and construct obesity as a policy issue. Through a rich analysis of the debates in Australia and the UK, it develops a nuanced analysis of the competing narratives that actors rely on to make sense of and argue about this issue, and documents how and to what effect they draw on scientific evidence to support their accounts. The real 'war on obesity', it demonstrates, has always been over...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349845027
• ISBN13: 9781349845026
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"