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Obesity in Canada: Critical Perspectives

Obesity in Canada: Critical Perspectives

Ellison, Jenny
McPhail, Deborah
Mitchinson, Wendy

Paperback

Medical ReferenceCanadian HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1442628545
ISBN13: 9781442628540
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Apr 14 2016
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Medical professionals, social policy makers, and the media have all declared that Canada is in the grip of an obesity epidemic. Conceptualizing obesity as a biological condition, these experts insist that it needs to be prevented and managed.


Obesity in Canada takes a broader, critical perspective of our supposed epidemic. Examining obesity in its cultural and historical context, the book's contributors ask how we measure health and wellness, where our attitudes to obesity develop from, and what the consequences are of naming and targeting as obese those whose body weights do not match our expectations. A broad survey of the issues surrounding the obesity panic in Canada, it is the first collection of fat studies and critical obesity studies from a distinctly Canadian perspective.

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