Killer fat
Subtitle: media, medicine, and morals in the American "obesity epidemic"
By: Natalie Boero
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813553719; 9780813553726
Subjects: Health in mass media; Obesity; Psychological aspects; Body image
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Obesity as a "leading health indicator": public health, moral entrepreneurs, and a confluence of interests; title: All the news that's fat to print: the American "obesity epidemic" and the media; title: Normative pathology and unique disease: Weight Watchers, Overeaters Anonymous, and behavioral treatments for the obesity epidemic; title: Bypassing blame: bariatric surgery, normative femininity, and the case of biomedical failure; title: Conclusion: health at every size or thin at any price?