Debating Obesity Critical Perspectives [Hardcover]

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'.Introduction: Contesting Obesity Discourse and Presenting an Alternative;? E.Rich, L.F.Monaghan? & L.Aphramor Does Fat Kill? A Critique of the Epidemiological Evidence;? P.Campos Bodily Sensibility: Vocabularies of the Discredited Male Body;? L.F.Monaghan? & M.Hardey 'You Can't Be Supersized?' Exploring Femininities, Body Size and Control within the Obesity Terrain;? I.Tischner? & H.Malson Doing More Good than Harm? The Absent Presence of Children's Bodies in (Anti-)Obesity Policy;? B.Evans? & R.Colls Children's Bodies, Surveillance and the Obesity Crisis;? E.Rich, J.Evans? & L.De Pian Fat Lib: How Fat Activism Expands the Obesity Debate;? C.Cooper Helping People Change: Promoting Politicised Practice in the Healthcare Professions; L.Aphramor? & J.Gingras Conclusion: Reflections on and Developing Critical Weight Studies;? L.F.Monaghan, E.Rich? & L.Aphramor

'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

PAUL CAMPOS is Professor of Law, University of Colorado, USACHARLOTTE COOPER is a Queer Fat Activist based in London, and currently a Government of Ireland PhD Scholar at the University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland, courtesy of the Irish Social Sciences PlatformRACHEL COLLS is Lecturer in Human Geography at Durham University, UKLAURA DE PIAN is a Doctoral Research Student in the School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Loughborough University, UKBETHAN EVANS is Lecturer in Geography and Medical Humanities at Durham University, UKJlSW