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9780203929575

Men and the War on Obesity : A Sociological Study

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203929575

  • ISBN10:

    0203929578

  • Copyright: 2008-04-02
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Lee F. Monaghan offers a timely, critical and original take on the obesity debate, bringing male bodies into the frame and questioning the claim from public health that millions of people are unhealthy because they are overweight or obese .

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Beyond Militarized Medicine 2. Bodily Alignment and Accounts: From Excuses to Repudiation 3. Smoking Guns, Wartime Injury and Survival: Men and Dieting 4. McDonaldizing Men's Bodies? Rationalization, Irrationalities and Resistances 5. Physical Activity and Obesity Fighting Campaigns: Men's Critical Talk 6. Conclusion: Social Fitness and Health at Every Size

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