The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality and Ideology

by PaulF.Campos (Foreword), Michael Gard (Author), JanWright (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $4.60

  Increasing obesity levels are currently big news but do we think carefully enough about what this trend actually means? Everybody - including doctors, parents, teachers, sports clubs, businesses and governments - has a role to play in the `war on obesity'. But is talk of an obesity `crisis' justified? Is it the product of measured scientific reasoning or age-old `habits of mind'? Why is it happening now? And are there potential risks associated with talking about obesity as an `epidemic'?

  The Obesity Epidemic proposes that obesity science and the popular media present a complex mix of ambiguous knowledge, familiar (yet unstated) moral agendas and ideological assumptions.

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $63.31

  Increasing obesity levels are currently big news but do we think carefully enough about what this trend actually means? Everybody - including doctors, parents, teachers, sports clubs, businesses and governments - has a role to play in the `war on obesity'. But is talk of an obesity `crisis' justified? Is it the product of measured scientific reasoning or age-old `habits of mind'? Why is it happening now? And are there potential risks associated with talking about obesity as an `epidemic'?

  The Obesity Epidemic proposes that obesity science and the popular media present a complex mix of ambiguous knowledge, familiar (yet unstated) moral agendas and ideological assumptions.

• New

  Hardcover
  2004

  $156.55

  Obesity associated with declining levels of physical activity is now a critical theme in health and exercise. This controversial book suggests the scientific community may have been complacent in its analysis of the crisis, and provides thorough and