Stanley J. Ulijaszek (University of Oxford)

Models of Obesity

From Ecology to Complexity in Science and Policy

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Produktbeschreibung

Taking a comparative approach, this book investigates the ways that obesity and its susceptibilities are framed in science and policy and how they might work better. Providing a clear, authoritative voice on the debate, the author builds on early work to engage further in ecological and complexity thinking in obesity.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 180mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9781107117518
• ISBN-10: 1107117518
• Artikelnr.: 48499407

Autorenporträt

Stanley J. Ulijaszek is Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Oxford and Director of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity there. He was recently appointed Honorary Professor in Health Research in the Humanities at the University of Copenhagen. His work on nutritional ecology and anthropology has involved fieldwork and research in Papua New Guinea, the Cook Islands and South Asia, while his interests in dietary transitions have led him to examine the evolutionary basis and cultural drivers of obesity.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements and influences
1. Introduction
2. Rationalities and models of obesity
3. Energy balance, genetics and obesogenic environments
4. Governance through measurement
5. Inequalities
6. Food and eating
7. Global transformations of diet
8. Obesity science and policy
9. Complexity
10. Systems and rationalities
Bibliography
Index.