LEADER 04074nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910785945603321 005 20230126205844.0 010 $a1-283-68781-X 010 $a0-8135-5372-5 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813553726 035 $a(CKB)2670000000269049 035 $a(EBL)1043699 035 $a(OCoLC)814694084 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000756143 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11428106 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756143 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10750287 035 $a(PQKB)11553459 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1043699 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18890 035 $a(DE-B1597)526179 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813553726 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1043699 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10614232 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL400031 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000269049 100 $a20111229d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aKiller fat$b[electronic resource] $emedia, medicine, and morals in the American "obesity epidemic" /$fNatalie Boero 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8135-6485-9 311 0 $a0-8135-5371-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Weighty Matters --$t1. Obesity as a "Leading Health Indicator": Public Health, Moral Entrepreneurs, and a Confluence of Interests --$t2. All the News That's Fat to Print: The American Obesity Epidemic and the Media --$t3. Normative Pathology and Unique Disease: Weight Watchers, Overeaters Anonymous, and Behavioral Treatments for the Obesity Epidemic --$t4. Bypassing Blame: Bariatric Surgery, Normative Femininity, and the Case of Biomedical Failure --$tConclusion: Health at Every Size or Thin at Any Price? --$tAppendix: Methodology --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aObesity$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aObesity$zUnited States$xPsychological aspects 606 $aHealth in mass media 606 $aBody image 615 0$aObesity$xSocial aspects 615 0$aObesity$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aHealth in mass media. 615 0$aBody image. 676 $a369.196/398 700 $aBoero$b Natalie$f1974-$01465604 702 $aMickulas$b Peter$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785945603321 996 $aKiller fat$93675702 997 $aUNINA