Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230222676 ISBN 13: 9780230222670

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Synopsis

This book brings together critical perspectives on some of the recent claims associated with the obesity crisis. It develops both theoretical and conceptual arguments around the obesity debate, as well as taking a more practical focus in terms of implications for the health professions to outline an agenda for a 'critical weight studies'.

About this title

About the Author:

EMMA RICH is Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy, The Body and Physical Culture, School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. She is co-author of the books The Medicalization of Cyberspace (co-authored) and Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse: Fat Fabrications (co-authored).
 
LEE F. MONAGHAN is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland. He has published research on bodies/embodiment, health, risk and gender. He is the author of Bodybuilding, Drugs and Risk and Men and the War on Obesity.
 
LUCY APHRAMOR is a Dietician working with an NHS cardiopulmonary team. Her practice and research focus on developing and delivering care approaches that reorientate services towards more socially integrated, and politicised, models of health and wellbeing.
 
 

Review:

'This collection has certainly succeeded inexpressing critical concerns on the obesity discourse and in contributing to the development of critical weight studies.' - Sociology of Health& Illness

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0230222676
• ISBN 13: 9780230222670
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 270
• Editor: Rich E., Monaghan L. F., Aphramor L.