Debating Obesity Critical Perspectives

This book brings together critical perspectives on some of the recent claims associated with the obesity crisis. It develops both theoretical and conceptual arguments around the obesity debate, as well as taking a more practical focus in terms of implications for the health professions to outline an agenda for a 'critical weight studies'.

EMMA RICH is Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy, The Body and Physical Culture, School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. She is co-author of the books The Medicalization of Cyberspace (co-authored) and Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse: Fat Fabrications (co-authored).
 
LEE F. MONAGHAN is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland. He has published research on bodies/embodiment, health, risk and gender. He is the author of Bodybuilding, Drugs and Risk and Men and the War on Obesity.
 
LUCY APHRAMOR is a Dietician working with an NHS cardiopulmonary team. Her practice and research focus on developing and delivering care approaches that reorientate services towards more socially integrated, and politicised, models of health and wellbeing.
 
 

Introduction: Contesting Obesity Discourse and Presenting an Alternative; E.Rich, L.F.Monaghan & L.Aphramor
Does Fat Kill? A Critique of the Epidemiological Evidence; P.Campos
Bodily Sensibility: Vocabularies of the Discredited Male Body; L.F.Monaghan & M.Hardey
‘You Can’t Be Supersized?’ Exploring Femininities, Body Size and Control within the Obesity Terrain; I.Tischner & H.Malson
Doing More Good than Harm? The Absent Presence of Children’s Bodies in (Anti-)Obesity Policy; B.Evans & R.Colls
Children’s Bodies, Surveillance and the Obesity Crisis; E.Rich, J.Evans & L.De Pian
Fat Lib: How Fat Activism Expands the Obesity Debate; C.Cooper
Helping People Change: Promoting Politicised Practice in the Healthcare Professions; L.Aphramor & J.Gingras
Conclusion: Reflections on and Developing Critical Weight Studies; L.F.Monaghan, E.Rich & L.Aphramor