Social Aspects of Obesity
ISBN: 9781315075853
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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Subjects: Health and Social Care; Allied Health;

This collection of essays examines obesity not as an objective medical or psychological problem, but as a subjective social and cultural phenomenon. The contributors take a cross-cultural perspective, examining both the negative casting of obesity in developed countries and the traditional view of obesity as a positive characteristic in subsistence societies which is threatened by the dominance of Western culture.


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