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Obesity: Cultural and Biocultural Perspectives by Alexandra A. Brewis (Hardcover, 2010)

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In a world now filled with more people who are overweight than underweight, public health and medical perspectives paint obesity as a catastrophic epidemic that threatens to overwhelm health systems and undermine life expectancies globally. In many societies, being obese also creates profound personal suffering because it is so culturally stigmatized. Yet despite loud messages about the health and social costs of being obese, weight gain is a seemingly universal aspect of the modern human condition. Grounded in a holistic anthropological approach and using a range of ethnographic and ecological case studies, Obesity shows that the human tendency to become and stay fat makes perfect sense in terms of evolved human inclinations and the physical and social realities of modern life. Drawing on her own fieldwork in the rural United States, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands over the last two decades, Alexandra A. Brewis addresses such critical questions as why obesity is defined as a problem and why some groups are so much more at risk than others. She suggests innovative ways that anthropology and other social sciences can use community-based research to address the serious public health and social justice concerns provoked by the global spread of obesity.

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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13
9780813548906
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16046385006

Product Key Features

Author
Alexandra A. Brewis
Publication Name
Obesity: Cultural and Biocultural Perspectives
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Biology
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
232 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
333g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Alexandra A. Brewis
Series Title
Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality, and Social Justice
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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