Biopolitics and the 'obesity epidemic'. [Elektronisk resurs] : governing bodies / edited by Jan Wright and Valerie Harwood.

• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Part I Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic'; 1 Biopower, Biopedagogies and the Obesity Epidemic; 2 Theorizing Biopedagogies; 3 Friends, Enemies and the Cultural Politics of Critical Obesity Research; 4 Bio-Citizenship: Virtue Discourses and the Birth of the Bio-Citizen; 5 Doctor's Orders: Diagnosis, Medical Authority and the Exploitation of the Fat Body; 6 Marked as 'Pathological': 'Fat' Bodies as Virtual Confessors; Part II Governing Young People: Schools, Families and the 'Obesity Epidemic'. 
• 7 An Impossible Task?: Preventing Disordered Eating in the Context of the Current Obesity Panic8 Governing Healthy Family Lifestyles through Discourses of Risk and Responsibility; 9 Pedagogizing Families through Obesity Discourse; 10 Canadian Youth's Discursive Constructions of Health in the Context of Obesity Discourse; 11 Performative Health in Schools: Welfare Policy, Neoliberalism and Social Regulation?; 12 Disgusting Pedagogies; 13 The Rise of the Corporate Curricu. 

• Biopolitics and the ?Obesity Epidemic? , the first edited collection of critical perspectives on the "obesity epidemic," provides a comprehensive discussion of current issues in the critical analysis of health, obesity and society, and the impact of obesity discourses on different individuals, social groups and institutions. 

Ämnesord

Hälsa  (sao)

Biopolitics.  (LCSH)

Discourse analysis.  (LCSH)

Obesity  -- Social aspects. (LCSH)

Obesity  -- epidemiology -- Canada. (MeSH)

Obesity  -- epidemiology -- United States. (MeSH)

Public Policy  -- Canada. (MeSH)

Public Policy  -- United States. (MeSH)

Research  -- Canada. (MeSH)

Research  -- United States. (MeSH)

Övervikt  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Obesity. 

Health  (LCSH)

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

RA645.O23 (LCC)

362.196398 (DDC)

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