TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saguy,Abigail Cope
TI  - What's wrong with fat: the war on obesity and its collateral damage 
SN  - 9780199315925 (ebook) :
AV  - RA645.O23 S24 2013
U1  - 616.398 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Obesity
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This study presents each of the various ways in which fat is understood in America today, examining the implications of understanding fatness as a health risk, disease, and epidemic, and revealing why we have come to understand the issue in these terms, despite considerable scientific uncertainty and debate. The book shows how debates over the relationship between body size and health risk take place within a larger, though often invisible, contest over whether we should understand fatness as obesity at all. Moreover, it reveals that public discussions of the 'obesity crisis' do more harm than good, leading to bullying, weight-based discrimination, and misdiagnoses
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199857081.001.0001
ER  -