01705nam a2200277 a 4500 EDZ0000115797 StDuBDS 20150804193922.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 121220s2013 nyua fo| 001 0 eng d 9780199315925 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS RA645.O23 S24 2013 616.398 23 Saguy, Abigail Cope, 1970- What's wrong with fat [electronic resource] : the war on obesity and its collateral damage / Abigail Saguy. New York : Oxford University Press, 2013. 1 online resource : ill. This study presents each of the various ways in which fat is understood in America today, examining the implications of understanding fatness as a health risk, disease, and epidemic, and revealing why we have come to understand the issue in these terms, despite considerable scientific uncertainty and debate. The book shows how debates over the relationship between body size and health risk take place within a larger, though often invisible, contest over whether we should understand fatness as obesity at all. Moreover, it reveals that public discussions of the 'obesity crisis' do more harm than good, leading to bullying, weight-based discrimination, and misdiagnoses. Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Jan. 7, 2013). Includes bibliographical references and index. Obesity Social aspects. Print version 9780199857081 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199857081.001.0001 36718 36718