Lee F. Monaghan, Emma Rich, Andrea E. Bombak

Gebundenes Buch

Rethinking Obesity

Critical Perspectives in Crisis Times

Beschreibung

Rethinking Obesity invites readers to reconsider the medical and public health framing of population weight (gain) as a massive global problem, epidemic or crisis. Attentive to social values, scientific uncertainty and possible harms, the book furthers critique of the weight-centered health paradigm and world war on obesity.

Autor

Lee F. Monaghan is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland. His research and teaching largely fall within the areas of medical sociology and sociological theory. Besides advancing critical weight studies, Lee has published qualitative research on drug use among bodybuilders, physical violence in the night-time leisure economy, chronic illness among children and the embodiment of masculinities and heterosexualities. Emma Rich is Professor of Physical Activity and Health Pedagogy, University of Bath, UK. Her research examines sport, physical activity and physical/health education from critical/socio-cultural perspectives. Working across sociology and education, her work around critical pedagogies of health and physical education has informed research projects addressing obesity policy, health education in schools, eating disorders and digital health technologies. Andrea E. Bombak is currently Assistant Professor, University of New Brunswick, Canada. She is a social and population health scientist who leads provincially and federally funded studies on intersectional health inequities, weight stigmatisation and post-secondary food pedagogies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 619g
• ISBN-13: 9781138999718
• ISBN-10: 1138999717
• Artikelnr.: 62884452