The Real War On Obesity: Contesting Knowledge And Meaning In A Public Health Crisis (palgrave Studies In Science, Knowledge And Policy)
by John Boswell /
2016 / English / PDF
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This book sheds new light on the political battle to define and
construct obesity as a policy issue. Through a rich analysis
of the debates in Australia and the UK, it develops a nuanced
analysis of the competing narratives that actors rely on to make
sense of and argue about this issue, and documents how and to what
effect they draw on scientific evidence to support their
accounts. The real 'war on obesity', it demonstrates, has
always been over the meaning and nature of this public health
crisis. This insightful work will interest scholars of
interpretive policy studies, critical public health and science and
technology studies.
This book sheds new light on the political battle to define and
construct obesity as a policy issue. Through a rich analysis
of the debates in Australia and the UK, it develops a nuanced
analysis of the competing narratives that actors rely on to make
sense of and argue about this issue, and documents how and to what
effect they draw on scientific evidence to support their
accounts. The real 'war on obesity', it demonstrates, has
always been over the meaning and nature of this public health
crisis. This insightful work will interest scholars of
interpretive policy studies, critical public health and science and
technology studies.