TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boero,Natalie
TI  - Killer fat: media, medicine, and morals in the American "obesity epidemic" 
SN  - 9780813553726
AV  - RC552 .K555 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Obesity
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Health in mass media
KW  - Body image
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction --; Obesity as a "leading health indicator": public health, moral entrepreneurs, and a confluence of interests --; All the news that's fat to print: the American "obesity epidemic" and the media --; Normative pathology and unique disease: Weight Watchers, Overeaters Anonymous, and behavioral treatments for the obesity epidemic --; Bypassing blame: bariatric surgery, normative femininity, and the case of biomedical failure --; Conclusion: health at every size or thin at any price?; 2; b
N2  - Killer Fat examines how and why obesity emerged as a major public health concern and national obsession in recent years. Using primary sources and in-depth interviews, Boero enters the world of bariatric surgeries, Weight Watchers, and Overeaters Anonymous to show how common expectations of what bodies are supposed to look like help to determine what sorts of interventions and policies are considered urgent in containing this new kind of disease
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