Wendy Mitchinson

Fighting Fat

Canada, 1920-1980

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Produktbeschreibung

Fighting Fat is a comprehensive study of approaches to obesity from 1920 to 1980 in Canada. It examines the health professions use of the word 'obesity', how it was measured, its causes, and treatments. It examines popular cultures view of the obese and its effect on those who were fat.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781487522742
• ISBN-10: 1487522746
• Artikelnr.: 49806793

Autorenporträt

Wendy Mitchinson is a Canadian historian and a Distinguished Professor Emerita in University of Waterloo.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Nutrition Policy: "Dietetic Missionaries"
2. About Obesity
3. Causes of Obesity
4. Treatment: "Stubbornly resistant to treatment"
5. "Dietary drug land" and Surgery
6. Infant, Child, and Teen Obesity
7. Body Image
8. Narratives of Fat Canadians
Epilogue
Notes on Sources