03054nam 22006375 450 991025426860332120251030105608.09781137582522113758252910.1057/978-1-137-58252-2(CKB)3710000000765368(DE-He213)978-1-137-58252-2(MiAaPQ)EBC4720348(PPN)194517454(Perlego)3482724(EXLCZ)99371000000076536820160727d2016 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Real War on Obesity Contesting Knowledge and Meaning in a Public Health Crisis /by John Boswell1st ed. 2016.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (XIII, 224 p. 6 illus. in color.)Revisited - Perspektiven der Gender und Queer Studies9781137582515 1137582510 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Chapter 1. Introducing the real ‘war on obesity’ -- Part I. Problem definition -- Chapter 2. Debating individual agency -- Chapter 3. Defining the scope -- Chapter 4. Disputing the problem -- Part II. Policy engagement -- Chapter 5. Representing knowledge -- Chapter 6. Claiming knowledge -- Chapter 7. Contesting knowledge -- Chapter 8. Transmitting knowledge -- Chapter 9. Conclusion. .This book sheds new light on the political battle to define and construct obesity as a policy issue. Through a rich analysis of the debates in Australia and the UK, it develops a nuanced analysis of the competing narratives that actors rely on to make sense of and argue about this issue, and documents how and to what effect they draw on scientific evidence to support their accounts. The real 'war on obesity', it demonstrates, has always been over the meaning and nature of this public health crisis. This insightful work will interest scholars of interpretive policy studies, critical public health and science and technology studies.Revisited - Perspektiven der Gender und Queer StudiesPublic healthSociologyEuropePolitics and governmentComparative governmentPublic HealthSociologyEuropean PoliticsComparative PoliticsPublic health.Sociology.EuropePolitics and government.Comparative government.Public Health.Sociology.European Politics.Comparative Politics.613614Boswell Johnauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut427356BOOK9910254268603321The Real War on Obesity2518509UNINA