| Description |
1 online resource (232 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare, 3 |
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Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare, 3
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Part I Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic'; 1 Biopower, Biopedagogies and the Obesity Epidemic; 2 Theorizing Biopedagogies; 3 Friends, Enemies and the Cultural Politics of Critical Obesity Research; 4 Bio-Citizenship: Virtue Discourses and the Birth of the Bio-Citizen; 5 Doctor's Orders: Diagnosis, Medical Authority and the Exploitation of the Fat Body; 6 Marked as 'Pathological': 'Fat' Bodies as Virtual Confessors; Part II Governing Young People: Schools, Families and the 'Obesity Epidemic' |
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7 An Impossible Task?: Preventing Disordered Eating in the Context of the Current Obesity Panic8 Governing Healthy Family Lifestyles through Discourses of Risk and Responsibility; 9 Pedagogizing Families through Obesity Discourse; 10 Canadian Youth's Discursive Constructions of Health in the Context of Obesity Discourse; 11 Performative Health in Schools: Welfare Policy, Neoliberalism and Social Regulation?; 12 Disgusting Pedagogies; 13 The Rise of the Corporate Curricu |
| Summary |
Biopolitics and the?Obesity Epidemic?, the first edited collection of critical perspectives on the "obesity epidemic," provides a comprehensive discussion of current issues in the critical analysis of health, obesity and society, and the impact of obesity discourses on different individuals, social groups and institutions |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Harwood, Valerie
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| ISBN |
9780203882061 |
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0203882067 |
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