Social Aspects of Obesity
| By: | Igor and Pollock De Garine |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9782884491860 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781134316212 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1995 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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This collection of essays examines obesity not as an objective medical or psychological problem, but as a subjective social and cultural phenomenon. The contributors take a cross-cultural perspective, examining both the negative casting of obesity in developed countries and the traditional view of obesity as a positive characteristic in subsistence societies which is threatened by the dominance of Western culture.