Killer fat : media, medicine, and morals in the American "obesity epidemic" /
Killer Fat examines how and why obesity emerged as a major public health concern and national obsession in recent years. Using primary sources and in-depth interviews, Boero enters the world of bariatric surgeries, Weight Watchers, and Overeaters Anonymous to show how common expectations of what bod...
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Obesity as a "leading health indicator": public health, moral entrepreneurs, and a confluence of interests
- All the news that's fat to print: the American "obesity epidemic" and the media
- Normative pathology and unique disease: Weight Watchers, Overeaters Anonymous, and behavioral treatments for the obesity epidemic
- Bypassing blame: bariatric surgery, normative femininity, and the case of biomedical failure
- Conclusion: health at every size or thin at any price?