What's Wrong with Fat?

by Abigail C. Saguy

Book Overview

The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic-a "battle of the bulge" of not just national, but global proportions-that requires drastic and immediate action. Experts in the media, medical science, and government alike are scrambling to find answers. What or who is responsible for this fat crisis, and what can we do to stop it?

Abigail Saguy argues that these fraught and frantic debates obscure a more important question: How...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199857083
• ISBN13: 9780199857081
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"