Emily Yates-Doerr The Weight of Obesity (Hardback)
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Further Details Title: The Weight of Obesity Condition: New Subtitle: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala ISBN-10: 0520286812 EAN: 9780520286818 ISBN: 9780520286818 Publisher: University of California Press Format: Hardback Release Date: 09/22/2015 Description: A woman with hypertension refuses vegetables. A man with diabetes adds iron-fortified sugar to his coffee. As death rates from heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes in Latin America escalate, global health interventions increasingly emphasize nutrition, exercise, and weight loss - but much goes awry as ideas move from policy boardrooms and clinics into everyday life. Based on years of intensive fieldwork, The Weight of Obesity offers poignant stories of how obesity is lived and experienced by Guatemalans who have recently found their diets - and their bodies - radically transformed. Anthropologist Emily Yates-Doerr challenges the widespread view that health can be measured in calories and pounds, offering an innovative understanding of what it means to be healthy in post-colonial Latin America. Through vivid descriptions of how people reject global standards and embrace fatness as desirable, this book interferes with contemporary biomedicine, adding depth to how we theorize structural violence. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about the politics of healthy eating. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Width: 20mm Author: Emily Yates-Doerr Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Social Sciences, Medicine Book Series: California Studies in Food and Culture Release Year: 2015 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
