Title Alcohol, tobacco and obesity : morality, mortality and the new public health / edited by Kirsten Bell, Amy Salmon, Darlene McNaughton

Published London : Routledge, 2011

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Description xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Routledge studies in public health Routledge studies in public health. Contents Part I: The cultural politics of public health scholarship and policy -- 1. Deconstructing behavioural classifications: tobacco control, 'professional vision' and the tobacco user as a site of governmental intervention / Michael Mair-- 2. Neoliberalism, public health and the moral perils of fatness / Kathleen LeBesco -- 3. Addiction and personal responsibility as solutions to the contradictions of neoliberal consumerism / Robin Room -- 4. Between alarmists and sceptics: on the cultural politics of obesity scholarship and public policy / Michael Gard -- 5. Legislating abjection? Secondhand smoke, tobacco control policy and the public's health / Kirsten Bell -- Part II: Rationality and the ambivalent place of pleasure -- 6. Permissible pleasures and alcohol consumption / Robin Bunton -- 7. Intoxication, harm and pleasure: an analysis of the Australian National Alcohol Strategy / Helen Keane -- 8. Smoking causes creative responses: on state anti-smoking policy and resilient habits / Simone Dennis -- 9. The sociality of smoking in the face of anti-smoking policies / Lucy McCullough -- 10. In praise of hunger: Public health and the problem of excess / John Coveney -- Part III: Gendered bodies, gendered policies -- 11. From the womb to the tomb: obesity and maternal responsibility / Darlene McNaughton -- 12. Responsibility for the family's health: how nutritional discourses construct the role of mothers / Svetlana Ristovski-Slijepcevic -- 13. Pretty girls don't smoke: gender and appearance imperatives in tobacco prevention / Rebecca J. Haines-Saah -- 14. Aboriginal mothering, FASD prevention and the contestations of neoliberal citizenship / Amy Salmon Notes Formerly CIP. Uk Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Alcoholism -- Social aspects. Alcoholism. Health promotion. Health status indicators. Obesity -- Social aspects. Obesity. Public health. Smoking -- Social aspects. Smoking. Tobacco use. Author Bell, Kirsten. McNaughton, Darlene. Salmon, Amy. LC no. 2011291089 ISBN 0415590175 (hbk.) 9780415590174 (hbk.)

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