The obesity epidemic : science, morality and ideology /

• Gard, Michael, 1965-
• Wright, Jan, 1948-

• Obesity.
• Obesity -- Social aspects.
• Health in mass media

• Routledge,

• 0415318963 (pbk.)
• 0415318955 (hbk.) :
• 9780415318969
• 0203619307 (e-book)
• 9780203619308 (e-book)

• 60.00

• Includes index.
• Bibliography: p. 191-209.
• 1. Science and Fatness 2. The War on Obesity 3. The Ghost of a Machine 4. 'Modernity's Scourge': A brief history of obesity science 5. Fat or Fiction: Weighing in the 'obesity epidemic' 6. The search for a cause 7. Obesity Science for the People 8. Feminism and the 'obesity epidemic' 9. Interrogating expert knowledge: risk and the ethics of body weight 10. Beyond Body Weight.

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• Using visual data in qualitative research
• Physical activity at our age qualitative research among people over the age of 50
• Sport health and drugs a critical sociological perspective
• Training the over 50s
• Therapy culture cultivating vulnerability in an uncertain age
• Doping in elite sport the politics of drugs in the Olympic movement
• MMR and autism what parents need to know
• Strength training for seniors an instructor guide for developing safe and effective programs
• Guidelines for the physiological testing of athletes
• Beating stress in the NHS
• Occupational therapy principles and practice
• Offside racism playing the white man
• uses of sport a critical study
• Public health ethics
• Occupation based practice fostering performance and participation
• imperative of health public health and the regulated body
• Coronary heart disease epidemiology from aetiology to public health
• Health and the media
• body and society explorations in social theory
• Nutrition at a glance
• Body knowledge and control studies in the sociology of physical education and health
• Sport and society a student introduction
• Telling tales in sport and physical activity a qualitative journey
• Existential psychology and sport theory and application
• Drugs in sport
• Black and minority ethnic groups in England
• Exercise prescription physiological foundations a guide for health sport and exercise professionals
• Social issues in sport
• Physical education essential issues
• Investigating the media
• Theorising modernity reflexivity environment and identity in Giddens social theory
• Exercise testing and exercise prescription for special cases theoretical basis and clinical application
• Understanding physical education
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• Physiological assessment of human fitness
• Media and health
• British low culture from safari suits to sexploitation
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• Feminist theory and the body a reader
• managed heart commercialization of human feeling
• Obesity third report of session 2003 04 Report together with formal minutes
• Childhood obesity food advertising in context childrens food choices parents understanding and influence and the role of food promotion
• Frameworks for sport psychologists enhancing sport performance
• Breastfeeding in hospital mothers midwives and the production line
• Black and Asian athletes in British sport and society a sporting chance
• Exercise psychology
• politics of womens bodies sexuality appearance & behavior
• Sport culture and the media the unruly trinity
• Introductory microbiology
• Physical activity and health
• Shaping up to womanhood gender and girls physical education
• Science of flexibility
• lived body sociological themes embodied issues
• Exercise physiology theory and application to fitness and performance
• Sport in consumer culture
• Predicting health behaviour research and practice with social cognition models
• Evidence based practice for occupational therapists
• Closing the gender gap post war education and social change
• Equity and inclusion in physical education and sport contemporary issues for teachers trainees and practitioners
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• Tackling Obesity in England
• Health care management organization design and behavior
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• ABC of obesity
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• Childhood obesity prevention and treatment
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• Essentials of research methods in health physical education exercise science and recreation
• Gender and physical education contemporary issues and future directions
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• ACSMs exercise management for persons with chronic diseases and disabilities
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