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Fat is a book about why the fat body has become so reviled and reviewed as diseased, the target of such intense discussion and debate about ways to reduce its size down to socially and medically acceptable dimensions. The second and much expanded edition of Fat is twice as long as the original edition. Lupton incorporates the very latest current critical scholarship and research offered in the humanities and social sciences on fat embodiment and fat politics.The volumeis a lively, at times provocative introduction for the general reader, as well as for students and academics interested in the politics of embodiment and health.…mehr

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Fat is a book about why the fat body has become so reviled and reviewed as diseased, the target of such intense discussion and debate about ways to reduce its size down to socially and medically acceptable dimensions. The second and much expanded edition of Fat is twice as long as the original edition. Lupton incorporates the very latest current critical scholarship and research offered in the humanities and social sciences on fat embodiment and fat politics.The volumeis a lively, at times provocative introduction for the general reader, as well as for students and academics interested in the politics of embodiment and health.
Autorenporträt
Deborah Lupton is Centenary Research Professor in the Faculty of Arts & Design, University of Canberra. She is an internationally renowned sociologist and the author/co-author of fifteen other books, the latest of which are Digital Health: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-Tracking and Digital Sociology.