| Description |
vi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| 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 |
Biopower, biopedagogies and the obesity epidemic / Jan Wright -- Theorizing biopedagogies / Valerie Harwood -- Friends, enemies and the cultural politics of critical obesity research / Michael Gard -- Bio-citizenship : virtue discourses and the birth of the bio-citizen / Christine Halse -- Doctor's orders : diagnosis, medical authority and the exploitation of the fat body / Annemarie Jutel -- Marked as 'pathological' : 'fat' bodies as virtual confessors / Samantha Murray -- An impossible task? : preventing disordered eating in the context of the current obesity panic / Natalie Beausoleil -- Governing healthy family lifestyles through discourses of risk and responsibility / Simone Fullagar -- Pedagogizing families through obesity discourse / Lisette Burrows -- Canadian youth's discursive constructions of health in the context of obesity discourse / Geneviève Rail -- Performative health in schools : welfare policy, neoliberalism and social regulation? / Emma Rich and John Evans -- Disgusting pedagogies / Deana Leahy -- The rise of the corporate curriculum : fatness, fitness, and whiteness / Laura Azzarito -- Biopedagogies and beyond / Valerie Walkerdine |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Biopolitics.
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Discourse analysis.
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Obesity -- Social aspects.
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Obesity -- epidemiology.
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Public Policy.
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Research.
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| SUBJECT |
Canada. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002170 |
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United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Author |
Harwood, Valerie, 1967-
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Wright, Jan, 1948-
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| LC no. |
2008037539 |
| ISBN |
0415991889 (hbk.) |
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9780415991889 (hbk.) |
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