Killer Fat by Natalie Boero

Killer Fat by Natalie Boero

In the past decade, obesity has emerged as a major public health concern in the United States and abroad. At the federal, state, and local level, policy makers have begun drafting a range of policies to fight a war against fat, including body-mass index (BMI) report cards, snack taxes, and laws to control how fast food companies market to children. As an epidemic, obesity threatens to weaken the health, economy, and might of the most powerful nation in the world. In Killer Fat, Natalie Boero 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. Boero argues that obesity, like the traditional epidemics of biological contagion and mass death, now incites panic, a doomsday scenario that must be confronted in a struggle for social stability. The war on obesity, she concludes, is a form of social control. Killer Fat ultimately offers an alternate framing of the nation's obesity problem based on the insights of the Health at Every Size movement.

NATALIE BOERO is an associate professor of sociology at San Jose State University. She is the author of Bypassing Blame: Bariatric Surgery and the Case of Biomedical Failure in Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in U.S. Biomedicine and Fat Kids, Working Moms, and the 'Epidemic of Obesity' Race, Class, and Mother-Blame, in The Fat Studies Reader.

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ISBN 13	9780813553719
ISBN 10	0813553717
Titel	Killer Fat
Autor	Natalie Boero
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Rutgers University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2012-09-01
Seitenanzahl	192
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