Alcohol, tobacco and obesity : morality, mortality and the new public health / / edited by Kirsten Bell, Darlene McNaughton and Amy Salmon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814984403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-76251-5; 1-136-76252-3; 0-203-82215-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in public health
• Altri autori (Persone): BellKirsten; McNaughtonDarlene; SalmonAmy
• Disciplina: 362.1
• Soggetti: Public health; Health promotion; Health status indicators; Alcoholism; Tobacco use; Obesity
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Alcohol, Tobacco and Obesity; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: The cultural politics of public health scholarship and policy; 1. Deconstructing behavioural classifications: tobacco control, 'professional vision' and the tobacco user as a site of governmental intervention: Michael Mair; 2. Neoliberalism, public health and the moral perils of fatness: Kathleen Lebesco; 3. Addiction and personal responsibility as solutions to the contradictions of neoliberal consumerism: Robin Room; 4. Between alarmists and sceptics: on the cultural politics of obesity scholarship and public policy: Michael Gard5. Legislating abjection? Second-hand smoke, tobacco-control policy and the public's health: Kirsten Bell; Part II: Rationality and the ambivalent place of pleasure; 6. Permissible pleasures and alcohol consumption: Robin Bunton; 7. ; Intoxication, harm and pleasure: an analysis of the Australian National Alcohol Strategy: Helen Keane; 8. Smoking causes creative responses: on state anti-smoking policy and resilient habits: Simone Dennis; 9. The sociality of smoking in the face of anti-smoking policies: Lucy McCullough10. In praise of hunger: public health and the problem of excess: John Coveney; Part III: Gendered bodies, gendered policies; 11. From the womb to the tomb: obesity and maternal responsibility: Darlene McNaughton; 12. Responsibility for the family's health: how nutritional discourses construct the role of mothers: Svetlana Ristovski-Slijepcevic; 13. Pretty girls don't smoke: gender and appearance imperatives in tobacco prevention: Rebecca J. Haines-Saah; 14. Aboriginal mothering, FASD prevention and the contestations of neoliberal citizenship: Amy SalmonIndex