Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies

Name: Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies
Brand: Taylor & Francis > Multiple Funders

Taylor & Francis > Multiple Funders

Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity StudiesAuthor(s): Michael Gard, Darren Powell, Jos Tenorio\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367362447, 978-0367362447\nSynopsis\nThe Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies is an authoritative and challenging guide to the breadth and depth of critical thinking and theory on obesity. Rather than focusing on obesity as a public health crisis to be solved, this reference work offers divergent and radical strategies alongside biomedical and positivist discourses.\n\nComprised of thirty nine original chapters from internationally recognised academics, as well as emerging scholars, the Handbook engages students, academics, researchers and practitioners in contemporary critical scholarship on obesity; encourages engagement of social science and related disciplines in critical thinking and theorising on obesity; enhances critical theoretical and methodological work in the are.