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Takes on the 'obesity epidemic,' challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. This title examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent 'obesity' are sensible, efficacious, or ethical.

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"Weighing In is the book that fat studies and critical geographers of fat have been waiting for." -- Deborah McPhail, University of Manitoba Social & Cultural Geography "Guthman usefully challenges healthism in obesity research and food movements where consumption eclipses production." -- Lee F. Monaghan Sociology Of Health & Illness

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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 05/11/2011
    ISBN13: 9780520266254, 978-0520266254
    ISBN10: 0520266250
    Also in:
    Obesity: treatment and therapy Cultural studies: food and society Sociology

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Takes on the 'obesity epidemic,' challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. This title examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent 'obesity' are sensible, efficacious, or ethical.

    Trade Review
    "Weighing In is the book that fat studies and critical geographers of fat have been waiting for." -- Deborah McPhail, University of Manitoba Social & Cultural Geography "Guthman usefully challenges healthism in obesity research and food movements where consumption eclipses production." -- Lee F. Monaghan Sociology Of Health & Illness

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